Weekend arts forecast: Yellowcard, Buckcherry and more
This weekend: More rock, and more roll.
Everybody and everything has an anniversary sometime, right? This year, it’s the pop/punk band Yellowcard, which came out of Jacksonville around the end of the century and made waves with an EP on indie label Fueled By Ramen. Think Green Day or Blink-182, with a violin.
Yellowcard’s high-water mark, and the reason the band is topping Sunday’s multi-band bill at the Yuengling Center (on the University of South Florida Tampa campus) is Ocean Avenue, its three-million selling 2003 album on Capitol Records. This was a high-water mark.
It’s the 20th anniversary Ocean Avenue reunion tour, and from what lead singer Ryan Key’s been writing on Facebook, breaking up in 2016 – as Yellowcard did – might have been a tad premature.
Under a photo of the immense crowd at Michigan’s Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre, Key wrote:
“Detroit. What do I say? How do I thank you? I let go of the idea of playing shows in venues that big so many years ago. I was at peace with where Yellowcard decided to close the book. The second picture in this post was taken during ‘Only One’ and there were lights in the air as far back as we could see. I don’t know how long this chapter will last, but it doesn’t matter. If it was over again tomorrow, I’d be more grateful than I’ve ever been for the chance to be a part of this.”
Sunday’s 7 p.m. lineup also includes Mayday Parade, Story of the Year and This Wild Life. Find tickets here.
The band Buckcherry, which surfaced in the same era (late 1990s) as Yellowcard, is considerably harder-edged (think the career-defining “Crazy Bitch,” or the chart-topping “Lit Up,” party-rock songs both). The venue is Clearwater’s Capitol Theatre, tonight (July 20). Buckcherry, which just played the Hard Rock Event Center in December, is supported on this go-round by Gunshine. Find tickets here.
Since the 2021 passing of founding member Dusty Hill, the hard-boogying Texas trio ZZ Top has carried on with Hill’s stage technician, a guy called Elwood Francis, handling bass. So Top – still hard-boogying – is a threesome once again, albeit not the same three the world knew and loved. Billy Gibbons (guitar) and Frank Beard (drums) remain.
The band is sharing a summer tour bill with Lynyrd Skynyrd, and it’s this caravan of cool that visits the MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre in Tampa Saturday.
Oh, all right, somebody needs to say it about Skynyrd. Original members: 0.
Find tickets here.
The Sound, Clearwater’s gigantic new amphitheater, hosts the always-welcome return of Michael Franti & Spearhead Friday; on Monday, it’s Goo Goo Dolls and O.A.R. Sound tickets are here.
Masked metal-mongers Mudvayne play the Mid-Florida Friday; tickets are here.
Sad to note that The Attic at Rock Brothers Brewing, the Ybor City listening room that delivered some pretty cool shows over the years, has apparently closed down.
Theater and other stuff
At Jobsite Theater, the rock ‘n’ roll musical Lizzie continues. Tickets for the fast-moving fable constructed around the legend of 19th century axe murderess Lizzie Borden are here.
And La Gringa, American Stage’s first bilingual production, is onstage too. Here’s the Catalyst interview with director Tatyana-Marie Carlo. Find tickets at this link.
James Suggs (left) and Jeremy Carter. Photo provided.
Saxophonist Jeremy Carter and trumpeter James Suggs – two of the bay area’s finest jazz players – join forces for a Saturday show at the side Door Café, downstairs at the Palladium Theater. The band, this time around, includes Joe Aromola on bass, John O’Leary on piano and Rod Alnord on drums.
That’s an evening show (8 p.m.), but the Sunday Side Door concert – featuring blues singer and guitarist Doug MacLeod – happens at 3 in the afternoon.
Locate all Palladium tickets here.
At thestudio@620: Saturday at 7, Kai Tomalin unveils his Dame tus Manos art show and ethnographic project (find out more here); Sunday at 2, Tampa novelist Mark Lieb discusses his new book Image Breaker; and Monday evening brings a concert by the Ross Strauser Jazz Collective, with James Suggs, Aaron West, James Wall, LaRue Nickelson, Simon Lasky, Noel Reyes and Rod Alnord.
Find all 620 info and tickets here.
More than 60 fine artists, most from the bay area, will descend on the St. Petersburg Coliseum Saturday and Sunday (10 a.m. start time each day) for the annual Professional Association of Visual Artists (PAVA) Cool Art Show (the word cool meaning “air conditioned”). Admission is free, and details are here.
The Weekend arts forecast appears every Thursday in the Catalyst.
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