Amanda Starling, Staff Writer & Photographer

If you want to contact me, email amanda@showsigoto.com.

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Amanda Starling

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  mewithoutYou Live Review + Concert Photos w/ Field Mouse, -Foxing | The Local 662, St. Petersburg, FL | July 4, 2015

  by Amanda Starling

  Field Mouse fronter Rachel Browne was right: performing in the Florida summer heat is like being inside of a mouth. May a full

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  Ticket Giveaway: Anthony Raneri (of Bayside) w/ Chad Gilbert (from NFG) | Coming to The Social | Saturday, July 11, 2015

  by Amanda Starling

  If anything can be said for Anthony Raneri of Bayside, it’s that both his solo work and band are blowing up the alt-rock scene.

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  Ticket Giveaway: Vans Warped Tour | Sponsored by: Live Nation | Coming to Vinoy Park St. Petersburg| Friday, July 3, 2015

  by Amanda Starling

  Lace up your Vans and prep your snapback, kiddos. It’s festival season, which for many of you scene teens, it’s probably your

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  Meridian Live Review + Concert Photos | w/ Worst Party Ever, Snacking, Big Brother, and Eliot Mayo | Mojo’s Books & Records, Tampa | June 16, 2015

  by Amanda Starling

  Cozy DIY-vibes were stacked between bookshelves and record displays as Tampa Bay bands, and touring folk-punk outfit Meridian,

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  Ticket Giveaway: The War on Drugs | Sponsored by: Lizzy McCormack’s Irish Pub! | Coming to The Beacham Orlando | Wednesday, June 17, 2015

  by Amanda Starling

  Synth-y, mesmerizing, alluring are the first words that pop into my mind as I jam along to The War on Drugs. For the list of

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  Ticket Giveaway: You, Me, and Everyone We Know | Coming to BackBooth Orlando | June 9, 2015

  by Amanda Starling

  It looks like You, Me and Everyone We Know is keeping their April promise made in Tampa– the Lancaster, Penn. band is

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  Burgatory Festival Live Review + Concert Photos | Wolf-face, Sunshine State, Buffalo Buffalo, You Vandal, and more | St. Petersburg | May 23 2015

  by Amanda Starling

  “Loooovers” piled into the smoky Fubar at midnight, summoned by either the howls of Wolf-face, the line-up of more than a

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  Ticket Giveaway: Melt-Banana | Coming to Backbooth Orlando | Thursday, May 28, 2015

  by Amanda Starling

  If there’s a performance I’m craving this summer, it’s Melt-Banana. Hailing from Japan, the globally acclaimed noise

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  Fidlar & Metz Live Review & Concert Photos | State Theatre, St. Petersburg| May 11 2015

  by Amanda Starling

  Surf psychedelic invaded the State Theatre in St. Petersburg in a potent, aggressive punch. Metz and Fidlar, co-headlining,

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  Tigers Jaw Live Review & Concert Photos | The Social Orlando | May 1, 2015

  by Amanda Starling

  Tigers Jaw weren’t ones for chatter once taking the Social stage. But the casual, confident smiles exchanged with the crowd

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  Yellowcard Live Review & Concert Photos w/ Finch and The Downtown Fiction | The Orpheum, Tampa | April 26, 2014

  by Amanda Starling

  The Orpheum was filled to the brim when Yellowcard took the stage. Between the die-hard love for the Jacksonville alternative

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  Have Mercy Live Review & Concert Photos w/ Weatherbox, You Me and Everyone We Know, and Head North | Epic Problem Tampa | April 8, 2015

  by Amanda Starling

  The romp of Have Mercy’s show may have been limited to the stage, but the band’s energy rolling into Epic Problem in Tampa

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  Swans Live Review & Concert Photos | State Theatre St. Petersburg | April 1, 2015

  by Amanda Starling

  Everything about Swans’ set echoed of a nonchalant ritualistic ceremony. Michael Gira, the legendary frontman that is known