Two of shock rock’s most enduring names are sharing a stage at the Fairgrounds this week, on only the second stop of a 21-date tour. Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson headline the “Freaks on Parade” tour at MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre on Friday, August 21, with Orgy and The HU opening. The tour opened the … Read more
Update: This event has passed. Dead Set Florida played Jannus Live on Saturday, August 1, 2026. Photo: Kurt Christensen, licensed CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (The Flaming Lips performing at the venue, 2007 — not this show) Free live music at one of St. Petersburg’s most storied venues is a good enough pitch on … Read more
Update: This event has passed. Freestyle Explosion 2026 played the Yuengling Center on Saturday, August 1, 2026. Photo: TheCustomOfLife, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons If you grew up on freestyle radio in the late ’80s and ’90s, Saturday night is the closest thing the genre gets to a reunion tour. Freestyle Explosion 2026 packs Stevie … Read more
Update: This event has passed. John Mellencamp played MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre on Monday, August 3, 2026. John Mellencamp hasn’t exactly been resting on those hits since the 1980s, but his new tour is betting Tampa will gladly revisit them anyway. The “Dancing Words Tour — The Greatest Hits” rolls into MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre … Read more
Avenged Sevenfold and Good Charlotte don’t share an obvious sound, but they share a generation of fans who grew up on both at once — one delivering technical metal, the other pop-punk radio hits, both acts now two decades into careers that started around the same moment. Their joint North American tour stops at MIDFLORIDA … Read more
The sword swallowers and two-headed snakes come to town first. When Mötley Crüe kicked off “The Return of the Carnival of Sins” tour earlier this summer, they didn’t just roll out a normal rock show — they staged a full theatrical carnival production spanning four decades of hard-rock anthems. The tour hits Tampa on Saturday, … Read more
Update: The August 6, 2026 date has passed. Rock the Park is a free monthly concert series at Curtis Hixon Waterfront Park and continues on its regular schedule. Fifteen-plus years running and Rock the Park still hasn’t charged admission once. The free monthly concert series, a partnership between the Tampa Downtown Partnership and Brokenmold Entertainment, … Read more
Update: The 2026 festival has ended. Bolts Brew Fest is the Tampa Bay Lightning’s annual craft beer festival — the 2026 edition was its ninth — and is expected to return in summer 2027. Bolts Brew Fest returns to Benchmark International Arena (the building most of us still call AMALIE) on Saturday, July 25, for … Read more
John Rzeznik and the Goo Goo Dolls bring “Name,” “Slide,” and “Iris” to MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre on August 24, with Neon Trees opening — confirmed directly via Live Nation’s own listing.
From Latin music at The Ritz to hardcore at The Orpheum, Ybor’s club scene has a genuinely different show on almost every corner this Saturday.