Monday, May 14 MUST-SEE SHOW: Hundred Waters  – This Gainesville group is blowing up in all the right ways – from an 8.1 review from Pitchfork to the most buzzed-about set of the many buzzed-about sets at the recent Orange You Glad fest. (Also, it must be mentioned that if you’re a fan of...
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Beach House presents an intoxicating, anachronistic vision.
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The undying ’90s live! Joan of Arc plays the latest Parafora Presents Anniversary shindig at Back Booth with Pillars & Tongues, the Pauses, and Nicole Miglis. Over at the Social, Yo La Tengo is playing. Apparently, the band realized that, after 11,529 years, it might be about time to do something really ridiculous with...
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Man, if you are a fan of smooth sounds, tonight is a great night for you to bust out the rosé.  To wit: Barry Manilow at the Amway Center. Kenny Loggins and Christopher Cross (HOLY SHIT!) in Melbourne at the King Center. Ottmar Liebert and Luna Negra at the Plaza. A Journey cover band...
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Styx and Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk are playing the Plaza tonight. No, not together, silly. The Styx show starts at 6:30, and the funk show gets underway at 9:30. I’ve written about my deep and abiding and embarrassing love for Styx before, so no need to humiliate myself again on that front. As for the...
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This week was pretty sleepy, but this weekend is anything but. TONIGHT: A weekend of great shows kicks off with a fantastic bill of local and semi-local talent at Will’s Pub, including the alt-rock of Tallhassee’s Only Thieves, the burly pop of Mother Night, the Superchunk-y goodness of the New Lows, and the joyous, life-affirming...
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Remember, way back when, when we told you about the Two-Piece Band Mini-Fest going down at Will’s tonight? (You should remember, we told you on Monday.) Well, tonight’s tonight, and you can catch eight (!) two-piece acts, including The Knots, Yogurt Smoothness, Juan Pablo, Halloween, Disasteroids, Color by Deluxe, Caramellow Fudge, and, sadly, the final...
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So, you’ve been telling yourself tonight is Amateur Night and you’re just gonna stay home … until you realize HOLY CRAP IT’S NEW YEARS EVE I HAVE TO DO SOMETHING. Well, if you’re willing to brave the bad drivers and the twice-a-year drunks, there are actually a few worthwhile things going on tonight that...
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So, it looks like the Dead Kennedys – or what’s left of them (East Bay Ray and D.H. Peligro, plus Greg Reeves playing the role of Klaus Flouride and Skip McSkipster of the Winona Ryders as Jello Biafra) – are playing Melbourne tonight at a place called Levelz. Yeah, with a “z.” This show...
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Well, I got a little excited about this free No Friends/Khann/Teenage Softies/Grave Return show at Will’s tonight when I wrote about it for this week’s edition of the paper. Of course, punk rock moves faster than newsprint, so EVENTS HAVE OCCURRED. No longer are Teenage Softies and Khann on the bill. I don’t know...
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