Tampa Calling

Los Angeles Sludge-metal gods Big Business wear their name well. They  deliver a big, low-end, rumble-your-guts sound, and obviously mean business while doing it. That’s to be expected considering that bassist/singer Jared Warren and former Murder City Devil, drummer Coady Willis, are also members in a band called The Melvins. Maybe you’ve heard of them?

Having already gained notoriety for their 2007 LP Here Come The Waterworks, BB are set to release their new album Mind The Drift on Hydra-Head Records come May 12.  They have jumped the gun and set out on a North American tour in support of it that brings them to Czar in Ybor on April 30 and The Social in Orlando on May 1 along with opener Tweak Bird; another L.A. band that judging by their music could be mistaken for a Death From Above 1979 reincarnation.

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I admit it that I start too many blogs lamenting about why it is that there are no shows (that I want to see, at least) for days/week/months and then there are several competing shows the same night …

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Pictures by doubleHH

Friday night saw the return of Diplo — the DJ also known as Thomas Wesley Printz — to Ybor’s Czar Bar. Friday nights at Czar are better known as Pulp the Party, an electro hip-hop dance party hosted by the Orlando-based DJ Pauly Crush. It’s a quite the scene, though not your typical Ybor douchebag nightclub. Czar Bar has some style and every 30 minutes or so, it’s open bar. When you hear a horn and see the yellow sirens going off above the bar, it’s drink time on them.

Diplo — who spent time at UCF and had the unfortunate duty of dating M.I.A. for awhile — took the stage just after 1 a.m. His more than two-hour set had the packed dancefloor in a non-stop, booty-shaking throw down. Only a few cuts from Top Ranking , his ‘08 release that prominently featured Santigold, were played.  Highlights from the night were a remix of the Beastie Boys’ “So Watcha Want,” a tease of the melody from Santigold’s killer track, “Creator,” and a remix of M.I.A.’s “Paper Planes.”

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Ybor’s Czar bar is set to host a promising indie rock show tonight with Atlanta’s stellar Deerhunter headlining. Also on the bill are the highly underrated Orlando band Summerbirds in the Cellar and the final show for local faves Giddy-up, Helicopter!

Deerhunter was all over the best-of lists with 2008’s wonderful Microcastle – an often ambient, but gorgeous indie/post-rock album.

It’s a shame that Giddy-up Helicopter! is ending.  They just released an album (see the review here) and truly have an authentic style hard to come by in so many local bands.

$12, 9 p.m.