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TODAY’S CREATIVE LOVING PROFILE
Tampa Bay live music lovers can be found absorbing loud sonics and sweaty sights in venues ranging from cozy rock dens to plush theaters to humongous arenas to moonlit lawns peppered with empty beer cups. Everybody has his or her fave. Here at Creative Loafing, we have dozens of preferred rock, jazz, country, blues and experimental noise destinations. Which made whittling our list of Top 20 concert venues a real bitch, wrought with heated arguments and a near wrestling match between Snider and Tatangelo.
Here's what remained standing after the dust cleared. We've organized the venues according to capacity, listing them from biggest to smallest in each of five categories. But this isn't an end-all declaration. Think of our list as a springboard for a regularly expanding venue directory that will be found on Creative Loafing's awesomely retooled music page, due to drop next week. We'll also share memories there of our favorite gigs, as we do in the list below, and we hope to hear about some of your own booze-soaked recollections. You caught Green Day at the Brass Mug? You were there when Pearl Jam grunge-rocked Jannus Landing? Share your tale in the comments section found online under each venue. Enjoy.
On the Creative Loafing home page: Radiohead's Thom Yorke at the Ford Amphitheatre. Photo by Phil Bardi.
- Ruth Eckerd Hall
- Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center
- Progress Energy Center for the Arts (Mahaffey Theater)
- Tampa Theatre
- The Palladium at St. Petersburg College
- Czar
- Crowbar
- New World Brewery
- Dunedin Brewery
- Brass Mug
- Transitions Art Gallery @ Skatepark of Tampa
- Dave's Aqua Lounge
COMMENTS
RE: Tampa Bay’s top 20 concert venues
Posted by Wayne Valenti on 02.17.09 @ 11:25 AM
North Tampa has a New Clubby!Live Music Venue which has no cover! The Take 2 Lounge @ Tampa Pitcher Show. Performances Every Friday & Saturday Night from 9:00- 1:00am
RE: Tampa Bay’s top 20 concert venues
Posted by lukeent on 11.19.08 @ 09:32 AM
Whiskey Joes in Tampa is back! The old Castaway Restaurant on the Causeway is now the new Whiskey Joes! Great Live Entertainment Thursday through Sunday. Check out their Calendar at www.whiskeyjoestampa.com
RE: Tampa Bay’s top 20 concert venues
Posted by Arth Mawr on 11.19.08 @ 12:17 AM
New Venue of the Clubby variety and definitely worth a review - Gasoline Alley in Largo - 66th ST/Ulmerton