Soft Cuff and Rollingchild’s Mike Tony plays free Tampa concert on Tuesday

His music is moody and soulful.

By Ray Roa on Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 8:56 am

Photo via mrrollingchild/Facebook

Mike Tony, who plays Shuffle in Tampa, Florida on July 2, 2024.

Michael Bostinto might as well be Tampa Bay’s lounge music king.

Surrounded by musicians since birth, the sultry songwriter better known as Mike Tony can play drums (which he does for Daptone-adjacent quartet Soft Cuff), guitar and piano which he regularly deploys in solo sets like this one he brings to Shuffle for one of the Bay area’s best multi-genre open mics.

While Tony’s vocal (he can go from low crooning to full-pipe belting) and grasp on power-pop earned his old band Très Bien fame on “Next Great American Band,” the music he releases under the Rollingchild is the kind of moody, soulful and dank music that’s good for having sex and also drinking yourself into a bender.

There’s no cover to see Mike Tony play Tampa Shuffle on Tuesday, July 2.
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Ray Roa

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief in August 2019. Past work can be seen at Suburban Apologist, Tampa Bay Times, Consequence of Sound and The...

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