Tropico BLVD at Red Star Rock Bar, Art Walk at Bottle's Pub & Ruby's Elixir!

We got a slew of shows this week and we cannot wait to see you there!

Check more shows!

UPCOMING SHOWS SUMMER 2019

📍 7/26 - Red Star Rock Bar, Tampa FL
📍 7/27 - Art Walk at Bottle's Pub, Pinellas Park FL
📍 8/1 - Crowbar, Tampa FL

📍 8/3 - Red Star Ybor, Ybor City FL
📍 8/16 - Ruby's Elixir, DTSP
📍 8/17 - Cage Brewing, DTSP
📍 8/24 - Raffurty's, Sarasota FL
📍 8/31 - Geckofest 2019, Gulfport FL

UPCOMING DATES!

UPCOMING DATES SUMMER 2019

📍 7/26 - Red Star Rock Bar, Tampa FL

📍 7/27 - Art Walk at Bottle's Pub, Pinellas Park FL

📍 8/1 - Crowbar, Tampa FL

📍 8/16 - Ruby's Elixir, DTSP

📍 8/17 - Cage Brewing, DTSP

📍 8/24 - Raffurty's, Sarasota FL

📍 8/31 - Geckofest, Gulfport FL

'The Rails' Coming Soon!

The Rails single coming soon!

Our single 'The Rails' is currently in the kitchen getting the finishing touches! Stay tuned for the release announcement real soon! Pictured here is Mark and Dan trying to figure out how the board works. #TheRails

UPCOMING SHOW DATES

UPCOMING SHOW DATES

7/12 - Ruby's Elixir, St Petersburg, FL
7/26 - Red Star Rock Bar, Tampa, FL
7/27 - Bottles Pub. Pinellas Park, FL
8/16 - Ruby's Elixir, St Petersburg, FL

MERCH STORE IS OFFICIALLY OPEN

The Tropico BLVD band merchandise store is officially open! We are drop TWO designs! The Classic logo with a gradient on a Navy Unisex and the Tour Bus on a Women’s scoop tank top. Available on the merch store!

The Classic

Band logo with gradients on a navy unisex tee.

Ladies Tour Bus

Summer wheels with a retro feel

Get yours today!

We performed LIVE on the radio! Live Music Showcase on 88.5 WMNF Tampa!

We had the privileged of performing LIVE on the radio early this afternoon! At around 2pm EST we rolled up to WMNF’s radio station deep in Tampa, the day following our 4th of July party at Ringside! We performed a set of music live on the radio, the show was also streamed on Facebook and will be available on WMNF’s Youtube channel. We even had a caller pledge a donation for one of our t-shirts. We had such a great time, thank you to Mark, Tom and Rob and the rest of the crew for having us on! We had a great time and this was an experience we will never forget!

7/5 | WMNF Tampa, FL

Dave, Drunk Uncle, Wish, The Rails, Rocks Fall, Drugs, Jolly Roger

Check out the show streamed on the WMNF’s Live Music Showcase Facebook page right here.

4th of July Party!

Come see us at Ringside Cafe for a 4th of July party! No Cover! We will be playing 2 long sets with Billy Beck opening the night with an acoustic solo set. Come by after the fireworks and party with us!

Ringside Cafe | Downtown St Pete

THUR 7/4 9PM

Pics or it didn't happen - Thank you Music Fest News!

Check out these amazing pictures from our Rage Against the Machine Tribute show over at Crowbar.

Full pictures and article here.

Miguel Lantigua, Tropico Blvd – Photo credit: John Strojny

Audrey Short, Tropico Blvd – Photo credit: John Strojny

Cody Moore, Tropico Blvd – Photo credit: John Strojny

Dan Gailey, Tropico Blvd – Photo credit: John Strojny

We had such an amazing time at this show, we saw come incredible performances from the artists on stage, including Bangarang who continued to light up the house!

The production was excellent with Miguel and Don manning the lights and video presentations through out the entire show. The band was led by Justino Lee Walker on guitar, Vinny Svoboda on bass and Michael Garrie on drums. Vocalists were Cess Colindres, Jon Ditty, Senyo Fugar, Chris Pack, and Noah Prescott.

Special thanks to Bungalow for putting the show together along with Crowbar and NO Clubs in Tampa.

See you on the next one!

Read the full article here: https://www.musicfestnews.com/2019/07/guerrilla-radio-a-rage-against-the-machine-tribute/?fbclid=IwAR0OMSEfYzenDzMDsCf02foBeOCCu0Oparz51ilUPkPS92lmNfTXMHh-WkI

Guerrilla Radio - RATM Tribute Show

Hope to see you all there! Stay tuned for the post-show review after…Everyone involved has been working hard on this one and its been something I’m very proud to be a part of, lotsa people in this and its gonna be amazing!

🔥 For ONE NIGHT ONLY a collective of talent and ferocity is going to be at Crowbar to celebrate the music and movement of Rage Against the Machine! 🗽 Musicians from the Bay Area get together as Guerrilla Radio to pay tribute to the Renegades of Funk for this once in a lifetime event! 🎇 We are honored to be kicking off the night along with Tampa’s Bangarang for a triple threat of rock, movement and revolution! 💯

Our tribute cast includes:
• Justino Lee Walker
• Jon Ditty 
• Vinny Svoboda Music 
• Michael Garrie 
• Noah Prescott 
• Christopher Joel Pack
• Cess Colindres
• Senyo Fugar

✊🏾✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏿

As part of the message and ethos of #RATM there will be local non-profits represented at the event:
• Tampa Food Not Bombs
• Feeding Tampa Bay
• Current Initiatives
• Mezoculture
• Tampa Bay Democratic Socialists of America

🤘🏻🤘🏽🤘🏼🤘🏾🤘🤘🏿

People of the Sunshine State: Get your tickets today before they sell out! Link in the bio!

• Tropico Blvd 7:45pm
• Bangarang 8:45p
• Guerrilla Radio 9:45p

👇🏽👇🏻👇🏽👇🏿👇👇🏾

http://bit.ly/2EYb4J9

Sat 6/22 
+18 | Doors at 7pm | $12 adv\$16 DOS at Crowbar, Ybor City, FL Bungalow Entertainment No Clubs

ORANGE BLOSSOM JAMBOREE

Sunday May 19th | Sertoma Youth Ranch, Fl

We had an amazing time at the #ZombieStage at our FIRST #OBJ. 🍊The friends and family we got to play and share the groove with was an experience we will never forget! We are so grateful to have been there! Thank you #Hometeam 🍊

Pictures from our set at Orange Blossom Jamboree at Sertoma Youth Ranch.

Once again, HUGE thanks to Russ, Andi, and the rest of the production crew and all the volunteers!

OBJ SET - Zombie Stage 5/19/19

Jolly Roger
Drunk Uncle
Slide
The Island
Stranger Feels 
Loose Legged Woman +
Rocks Fall
Call Me Al ^
The Rails
Tigerbomb
Drugs

+ Trey Miller on Harmonica
^ Sara Phillips on trombone & Bob Feckner on trumpet

📸: Aleisha Nicole Prather

WE RECORDED OUR FIRST STUDIO SESSION!

We recorded the initial tracks for our upcoming single “The Rails” at Full Sail in Winter Park, Fla. Photos taken by Jonathen Matlock.

The HeadTones with Danfield and Tropico Blvd. Live at Ringside

We are excited to perform alongside Danfield and the Headtones at this hometown show! This is gonna be an EPIC night!

Saturday April 6th, Showtime: 10PM

Danfield, The Headtones & Tropico BLVD

Ringside Cafe

16 2nd Street North,

St Petersburg, Fla.

Blue Raven Market at Cage Brewing

Cage Brewing

Catch us performing at Cage Brewing for the Blue Raven Market this Friday April 5th in Downtown St Petersburg! Come out and enjoy handmade artisti wares from local vendors plus local food and some AMAZING craft beer! Market opens at 7pm and runs until 11pm

For more information on the event visit the link above.

Friday April 5th 7pm - 1pm

Cage Brewing

2001 1st Ave S, St. Petersburg, FL 33712

"Drunk Uncle" Live performed at Dunedin Brewery

Drunk Uncle performed at Dunedin Brewery, Dunedin FL | 1/3/2019

Taken from the direct VHS Master from our friend’s Sony VD-09 Video Camera, filmed at Dunedin Brewery in Dunedin Florida.

Rise N'Shine Reggae Sunday

Rise N'Shine Reggae Sunday | 2/10/19 | Cage Brewing

We had a fantastic time at the Rise N’Shine Reggae Sunday at Cage Brewing this past Sunday! The event is was hosted by Goatfish Productions and it was a really special event. We started at 4pm and sound checked with Is This Love by Bob Marley, our first time performing that song, it was chill and it really helped us gauge the room. We managed to perform a few reggae covers that were really well received. It let us know that we are riding a good wave, and get ready for a few new reggae originals that we are cooking up! Dan’s mom was in the audience and so was Kaimesha’s , Michelle. We played Scarlet Begonias for her once we were told it was her birthday. Great jams and the boys of Guerilla Panic and Propaganjah brought a great show!

Unfortunately we did not record this show, however Don swears it was an amazing show. We will have to hope that was the case.

Rise N’Shine Reggae Sunday | 2/10/19 | Cage Brewing, St Petersburg, FL

Is This Love (soundcheck)

Drunk Uncle, I Shot the Sheriff, Moving Out, Road Trippin’, Amber, Scarlet Begonias, Dave, Sunday Morning, Slide, Walking on the moon, The Rails, Happy Birthday, Jolly Roger

Concert Review - SuperBowl Halftime Performances: Shock & Awe

SuperBowl Halftime Performances: Shock & Awe

Written by Miguel Lantigua 

When it comes to spectacle, we Americans are hooked to it. We love our fireworks, our big guns and just about anything loud, dangerous, and fun. We love the circus, the lions, tigers, and acrobats. No sports event is bigger than the Superbowl and by extension, no other musical spectacle is bigger or more watched than the Superbowl halftime show. 

Surprisingly enough, the Superbowl halftime shows were seen more as a celebratory tradition where regional marching bands would perform or jazz performers like Louis Armstrong and Rhythm and Blues Chubby Checker. 

It was only up until the mid-to-late ’90s where we would see the beginning of the halftime shows the transformation from an almost traditional anthemic intermission to where it is now: an all-out musical performance.

As cable TV became ubiquitous in American homes, more and more eyes were fixed to the nation’s biggest sports event. Advertisers and record companies needed to get in on the game. Historically you would point the finger at New Kids On the Block as they appealed to a much younger demographic and the soon to be MTV-Gen-Xers but categorically it would be Prince and Michael Jackson who would set the standard of the modern Superbowl Halftime Show with their elaborate sets, lights, pyrotechnics, fireworks, and most of all, incredibly tight and entertaining performance. 

I simply cannot even fathom the amount of pressure to perform in a football stadium, usually packed with hundreds of thousands of people in addition to the probably millions watching at homes and Buffalo Wild Wings across the country. Make no mistake, I doubt the Superbowl Halftime show is a coveted gig at this point and each performer is trying to out-do the last. Whether its bombastic fireworks or complicated stage setups or special guests so vastly different you’d think the show switch performers, the recent shows have been such a stimulation overload that I feel we have reached the limits of our spectacle tolerance for Superbowl halftime shows and we just want something bigger. Why isn't the stage brighter, why aren't there more fireworks, why can't the whop stadium light up? Drones again? Why can't they explode?

Five months after 9/11 the NFL had a tough call to make on who will be performing the halftime show on a day of celebration in a still-grieving country. While possibly your average pick to perform, U2 delivered a subdued but powerful statement with the names of the victims projected on a scroll during their emotive anthem “Where the streets have no name” to Bono flashing his jacket lining to show the American flag. It was cathartic. Bruce Springfield and Bruno Mars delivered powerful stage presence with their swagger and just mesmerizing confidence. 

This is the gig of all gigs, so when you come to it, you have to think about the legacy that came before you and what you plant ot leave behind. 

What did Maroon 5 leave behind? Besides memes and disappointed SpongeBob fans, not much else. 

While pretty forgettable musically, Maroon 5’s performance generated memes across the internet, whether its the frontman’s tattoo choices to how Travis Scott could barely keep the melody to a song with barely a melody. The band started with their first hit “Harder to breather” then continued down their repertoire, almost in chronological order. To the point where I almost thought I was watching Maroon 5’s induction into rock and roll hall of fame for a minute. On a stage in the shape of a big “M”. While a big 5 would have been clever, it would have been a logistical nightmare maybe a Roman V? Nah, most people wouldn't get it. 

Also, it’s almost painful how the NFL missed an opportunity to connect with internet culture by teasing Spongebob’s “Sweet Victory” just to ripcord us to Sicko Mode, minus Drake even? Was he busy? After Travis did a trust fall into the crowd, Adam and the boys continued to perform their soccer mom hits to the nation, with Levine stripping a layer after each song. By the time they played their number one wedding song “We will be loved”, they had drones flying above spelling LOVE. Where am I again? Isn’t this a football game? 

The show concluded with a shirtless Levine humping the microphone stand surely getting the women in the front row pregnant. 

A sweet victory it was not. 

New Shows!

UPCOMING SHOWS

Feb 10 - Cage Brewing, St Petersburg, FL

Feb 13 - Ringside Cafe, St Petersburg, FL

Feb 16 - Ruby's Elixir, St Petersburg, FL

Feb 27 - Ringside Cafe, St Petersburg, FL

Mar 9 - Ruby's Elixir, St Petersburg, FL

Mar 13 - Ringside Cafe, St Petersburg, FL

Mar 27 - Ringside Cafe, St Petersburg, FL

Apr 06 - Ringside Cafe with the Headtones, St Petersburg, FL

Apr 10 - Ringside Cafe, St Petersburg, FL

Apr 20 - TBA

Apr 24 - Ringside Cafe, St Petersburg, FL

Apr 27 -TBA

May 19 - Orange Blossom Jamboree, Sertoma Youth Ranch