You know, I try to keep my ear to the ground (well, the interwebs), but sometimes things just sneak past me. I very nearly missed this event altogether. Better (almost) late than never, here’s the scoop: Three great bands playing TONIGHT at the Crowbar in Ybor City. In the event you were thinking about sitting…
Julia Stewart and Moongoddess Entertainment throw lots of great parties (the Kung Fu shows were tough to beat), but this Friday (December 18th) she’s hosting a big wingding with a purpose: the 5th Annual MG Entertainment Holiday Charity Drive featuring Greenhouse Lounge with Future Vintage and K Slat at The Crowbar in Ybor City! This…
GREAT SCOTT! Can this be true? Is it really almost Wednesday, October 21, 2015? Every movie buff knows that is the day Marty McFly and Doc Brown traveled to the future! Come celebrate that astonishing ride with Come Back Alice, Future Vintage and Row Jomah! Come prepared for amazing music, great beverages and a costume…
The Dunedin Brewery is a fabulous place for a variety of reasons. Their food is very good, and their beer is outrageous. But it is the music that keeps bringing me back. They have music almost every night, from popular national acts to unknown locals… and everything in between. I have “discovered” so many great…
It is difficult being a “critic” when everything is going right. At some point, you run out of superlatives, and even the hyperbole no longer seems that over-the-top. And music is in and of the moment. You can try to compare it to something that happened yesterday or last month or 40 years ago, but…
The contrast could not have been more stark. “I don’t believe her, NO, NO, NO, and her lying eyes,” he sang, and you believed every word he sang. EVERY. WORD. “He” was Kelly Finnigan, the incomparable soul belter and keyboard player for Monophonics, in Tampa (at the Crowbar) from San Francisco on an east coast…
Let’s suppose that you wanted to see all 72 bands at WMNF’s Tropical Heatwave at the Cuban Club, New World Brewery, the Crowbar and the Ritz in Ybor City May 1st and 2nd. You are a marathon runner, obviously. So the plan is to run from venue to venue, check off each band you see…
Often a writer tries to keep everything third-person. Sometimes, the writing becomes second-person: “You should listen to their second album.” And then again it can be first-person. That is because it has become personal. So this one is personal. I could try to be objective, but it wouldn’t work. From the moment I saw Displace…
In the current model for job evaluations, assessments, and ratings, the evaluator is encouraged to use the Oreo method: praise some things that are good that you wish to encourage, then offer suggestions for areas were improvement can be made, and close with more praise. With that model in mind, here goes my assessment of…
Jim Wuest is a sick, sick individual. I know. I saw what you did, Jim Wuest! Wuest is the keyboards player for the Heavy Pets, one of south Florida’s greatest exports. And he caused an explosion last Thursday at the Crowbar in Ybor City. See, what happened was… Roosevelt Collier and the Heavy Pets were…