Victoria Monét won 2024's Grammy for Best New Artist and Best R&B Album in the same year -- a breakout that came after more than a decade writing hits for other artists first. The Frequency of Love Tour is a 27-city headline run built around her next album.An R&B arena show, broadly appropriate for teens ... Read more
This is Rush's first tour in eleven years -- and the first ever without drummer Neil Peart, who died in 2020. Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson are playing a 35-song rotating setlist across two different Tampa shows, with a tribute segment to Peart built into every night. For a band that famously stopped touring in ... Read more
A free weekly language exchange at Common Dialect Beerworks in Seminole Heights -- Spanish speakers and Spanish learners pull up chairs together over a beer and trade conversation practice, no class structure or fee involved. Good for any level, from barely-conversational to fluent looking to stay sharp.Good to know: Common Dialect Beerworks, 5023 N Florida ... Read more
This is Rush's first tour in eleven years -- and the first ever without drummer Neil Peart, who died in 2020. Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson are playing a 35-song rotating setlist across two different Tampa shows, with a tribute segment to Peart built into every night. For a band that famously stopped touring in ... Read more
Doja Cat brings the Tour Ma Vie World Tour to Tampa with Latto opening. She's a Grammy winner whose "Agora Hills" became her eighth No. 1 at Top 40 radio -- a run that puts her among the most consistent hitmakers in pop right now.This is genuinely not a kids' show -- the staging and ... Read more
Jimmy Eat World is playing Bleed American front to back for its 25th anniversary, with Hot Mulligan and Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers opening. The album sold 1.7 million copies and threw off "The Middle," a top-5 Hot 100 hit -- AllMusic credits it with helping birth mainstream emo-pop as a genre. The band ... Read more
A free weekly language exchange at Common Dialect Beerworks in Seminole Heights -- Spanish speakers and Spanish learners pull up chairs together over a beer and trade conversation practice, no class structure or fee involved. Good for any level, from barely-conversational to fluent looking to stay sharp.Good to know: Common Dialect Beerworks, 5023 N Florida ... Read more
Cirque du Soleil's first holiday-themed show reimagines "A Visit from St. Nicholas" with the company's usual physical spectacle -- 26 performers, aerial straps, hair suspension, and hoop diving, all built into a tight 90 minutes with no intermission. Unlike some of Cirque's edgier adult productions, this one is built specifically as a family show.Genuinely appropriate ... Read more
The Revivalists are Grammy-nominated and still best known for "Wish I Knew You," the kind of song that became a bigger hit years after it first came out than it was on release. Jannus Live is an outdoor courtyard venue in downtown St. Pete -- a different, more intimate setting than a Tampa arena show.A ... Read more
DragonForce is playing their RIAA Gold-certified album "Inhuman Rampage" start to finish for the first time ever, 20 years after it came out -- that's the album with "Through the Fire and Flames," the hardest song in Guitar Hero III's library at 3,722 notes. Ensiferum and Rhapsody of Fire open.A power metal show, fine for ... Read more