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local music hall of fame week

March 18, 2010Leave your thoughts!

Note:  As always, some of these links will magically make noises come out of your speakers – prepare accordingly. Music Tampa Bay is now beginning its 6th year of streaming all original music by local artists, all the time, and this week is Hall of Fame week at the website. New Music, the Feature Artist, [...]

kids making music

March 16, 2010Leave your thoughts!

The search is beginning for talented teen musicians to compete in the 13th Annual Teenage Battle of the Bands hosted by the Hillsborough County Parks, Recreation and Conservation Department (PRC). The event is usually held in early November at the Hillsborough County Fair. The bands are judged on guitars, drums, vocals, showmanship, originality and preparation. [...]

mtb – five years of local music

March 11, 2010Leave your thoughts!

Note:  As always, some of these links will magically make noises come out of your speakers – prepare accordingly. March marks the 5th anniversary since streaming all original music by local artists began at MusicTampaBay.com. Nearly a thousand songs by literally hundreds of Tampa Bay musicians are now being heard on a regular basis – [...]

why orbit beaver

February 24, 2010Leave your thoughts!

Note:  As always, some of these links will magically make noises come out of your speakers – prepare accordingly. Some of Tampa Bay’s best are stepping up to the New Music plate on Music Tampa Bay this week, led by bay area rocker Rob Kosinski, with a brand new track he simply calls Orbit. Less known, but [...]

exploding chicken to cross downtown

February 21, 2010Leave your thoughts!

Why did the chicken cross the road? Because her owners thought she had outlived her usefulness, and want her gone. The untitled sculpture widely known as ‘the exploding chicken’ will soon make it’s home in Channelside in the middle of a roundabout.

dreams left behind headwaters

February 16, 2010Leave your thoughts!

Note:  As always, some of these links will magically make noises come out of your speakers – prepare accordingly. Music Tampa Bay adds only one new selection to the daily on-line playlist called the Big Bay 99 this week, but it is a big choice indeed. It comes from the versatile and well established talent [...]

young restless thug life freak out, good times roll

February 9, 2010Leave your thoughts!

Note:  As always, some of these links will magically make noises come out of your speakers – prepare accordingly. Four new songs enter the music parade at Music Tampa Bay this week, beginning with a 2nd selection from a group that technically does not qualify as local. Coming down I-75 from the Ocala area, but with a [...]

middle ground, carrollwood paradise

February 2, 2010Leave your thoughts!

Note:  As always, some of these links will magically make noises come out of your speakers – prepare accordingly. Four new songs make their way this week to the daily playlist at Music Tampa Bay. One is a truly brand new song, released to MTB just last week during a visit to Leigh and Steve Humes’ Pearl [...]

hannah’s whirl & more

January 26, 2010One comment so far, add yours!

Note:  As always, some of these links will magically make noises come out of your speakers – prepare accordingly. Six new songs make their debut at Music Tampa Bay, beginning with a Tampa group with a curious name, Hannah’s Whirl, and a song called Coquina from their Headwaters CD, released just this past year.   Also new [...]

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