{"id":414881,"date":"2026-09-30T17:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T17:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/414881\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T17:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T17:56:09","slug":"no-cover-diaspora-dance-party-returns-to-st-pete-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/414881\/","title":{"rendered":"No-cover &#8216;Di\u00e1spora&#8217; dance party returns to St. Pete on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"608\" data-attachment-id=\"368683\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/post-physique-photo-by-jen-bodine-smalltalks-mag\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Post-Physique-Photo-by-Jen-Bodine-SmallTalks-Mag.png?fit=1350%2C1052&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1350,1052\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"Post Physique Photo by Jen Bodine SmallTalks Mag\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Post-Physique&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Post-Physique-Photo-by-Jen-Bodine-SmallTalks-Mag.png?fit=780%2C608&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Post-Physique-Photo-by-Jen-Bodine-SmallTalks-Mag.png\" alt=\"A black-and-white indoor portrait photograph by Jen Bodine showing DJ Post-Physique pictured at The Bends in St. Petersburg. Captured from a medium close-up shot while performing behind a DJ controller turntable console, Post-Physique smiles downward toward the equipment controls while wearing over-ear headphones, a delicate pendant necklace, and a dark studded bustier top. In the background behind the DJ booth, stylized dark artwork depicting a skull motif is illuminated under ambient venue lighting.\" class=\"wp-image-368683\"  \/>Post-Physique Credit: Jen Bodine \/ c\/o Sector.FM<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jamaican by birth, Deja-Denise Sharrod was raised on the full spectrum of Caribbean music, and they bring that upbringing, and more, to the bi-monthly Di\u00e1spora series born last March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reggaeton, bimbocore, basically anything connected to the African diaspora, is on the table for an event whose sound travels to South and Latin America, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cObviously Jamaica is a country that\u2019s full of African diasporic people, but so is Puerto Rico and DR, and like we\u2019re basically playing the same music sometimes, and it\u2019s just in different languages,\u201d Sharrod told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. \u201cSo basically, just embracing the diaspora in different pockets of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For this fourth outing at T<a href=\"https:\/\/community.cltampa.com\/location\/the-bends-12505442\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he Bends<\/a>, Sharrod\u2014better known as <a href=\"https:\/\/sector.fm\/?r=post-physique\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/sector.fm\/?r=post-physique\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Post-Physique<\/a>\u2014welcomes Miami DJ and producer Mr. Bitch to a no-cover show where the Bay area\u2019s own T. Couture plays support while vendors and wing slingers work outside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/diaspora.stp\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/diaspora.stp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">There\u2019s no cover to see Post Physique, T. Couture, and Mr. Bitch at The Bends in St. Petersburg on Friday, Oct. 2.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/altnewsfoundation.org\/cl-tampa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pitch in to help make the Tampa Bay Journalism Project a success.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/tampa-newslettersignup-page\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to Creative Loafing newsletters.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAiECLjru3gB6BLYKOKFLfkVZsqFAgKIhAi467t4AegS2CjihS35FWb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google News<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbreak.com\/@c\/1599764?s=01\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NewsBreak<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/CreativeLoafingTampa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cltampabay\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cltampabay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/cltampabay.bsky.social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BlueSky<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"collection-link has-small-font-size\">This article appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/collections\/sept-24-30-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sept. 24 \u2013 30, 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead his 2016 intro letter\u00a0and disclosures from 2022 and 2021.\u00a0Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/author\/rroa\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Ray Roa\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Post-Physique Credit: Jen Bodine \/ c\/o Sector.FM Jamaican by birth, Deja-Denise Sharrod was raised on the full spectrum&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7565,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-414881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-live-music-in-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}