Orgy w/Vampires Everywhere!/Davey Suicide Plying a mix of seething industrial dance music and dark-moody alt-metal is Orgy, which debuted in the late 1990s and made mainstream radio airwaves with a cover of New Order’s “Blue Monday.” Vocalist Jay Gordon revived Orgy in 2011 after an extended hiatus, soldiering on with old Orgy material and a new single, “Grime of the Century,” but without any of his original bandmates. The current Orgy lineup includes Deadsy members Carlton Bost and Ashburn Miller. (State Theatre, St. Petersburg)
MONDAY, MARCH 11
Richard Shindell An expatriate singer-songwriter who resides in Argentina and offers up folk narratives from a variety of perspectives — from “The Courier” delivering his messages over a war-torn countryside, to a heart-sore mistress in “The Ballad of Mary Magdalen” (“Jesus loved me, this I know / But why on earth did I ever let him go?”), to the New York City cab driver in “Last Fare of the Day.” (Jaeb Theater at Straz Center for Performing Arts, Tampa)
TUESDAY, MARCH 12
Enter Shikari w/Architects/Heartist/Crossfaith Last year, Enter Shikari landed on several Best of 2012 lists with third full-length, A Flash Flood of Colour, the UK quartet’s post-hardcore seethe and churn given electro-magnetic treatment most evident in songs like drum ’n’ bass-fueled “Sssnakepit” and the zippy driving, synth-womped “Arguing With Thermometers.” (State Theatre, St. Petersburg)
Mike Zito and the Wheel Strat-slinging smoky-drawling bluesman Mike Zito explores his honky tonk tendencies with new group, The Wheel, which encompasses drummer Rob Lee, bassist Scot Sutherland and sax player Jimmy Carpenter. (Skipper’s Smokehouse, Tampa)
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