{"id":416017,"date":"2026-10-01T20:04:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T20:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/416017\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T20:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T20:04:17","slug":"rising-pop-hero-caroline-kingsbury-to-give-st-pete-the-shock-treatment-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/416017\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising pop hero Caroline Kingsbury to give St. Pete the &#8216;Shock Treatment&#8217; this month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"539\" data-attachment-id=\"368788\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/caroline-kingsbury-press-photo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Caroline-Kingsbury-press-photo-scaled.png?fit=2560%2C1767&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1767\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"Caroline Kingsbury press photo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Caroline Kingsbury &lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Caroline-Kingsbury-press-photo-scaled.png?fit=780%2C539&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Caroline-Kingsbury-press-photo.png\" alt=\"A dramatic editorial press photograph showing musician Caroline Kingsbury. Captured in a tight close-up portrait angled slightly upward against a pitch-black background, Kingsbury tilts her head back while staring forward with bold, avant-garde makeup. She features yellow-and-orange spiky teezed hair rising like a flame around her head, a yellow lightning-bolt accent painted across her forehead, bright red-and-yellow eyeshadow with bold eyeliner, vivid red lipstick, and a multi-row turquoise beaded choker necklace around her neck under intense studio lighting.\" class=\"wp-image-368788\"  \/>Caroline Kingsbury  Credit: Press photo<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Friends from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolinekingsbury.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.carolinekingsbury.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caroline Kingsbury<\/a>\u2018s past in Florida\u2019s Evangelical church may be shocked to see the throngs of fans devoted to her special brand of pop music, and that\u2019s kind of the point. A 2025 EP, Shock Treatment, is a joyous celebration of queer life that doesn\u2019t dance around the pressures and realities for folks living that reality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On it, the 31-year-old opens up a conversation about reverse conversion therapy to make heterosexuality taboo, all while showcasing a powerhouse vocal that landed Kingsbury on the 2025 Lollapalooza lineup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jannuslive.com\/events\/cannons\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/jannuslive.com\/events\/cannons\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tickets to see Cannons and Caroline Kingsbury at Jannus Live in St. Petersburg on Thursday, Oct. 8 are still available and start at $46.69.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1790885057_186_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Youtube video\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" nopin=\"nopin\"\/><\/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\/oct-01-07-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oct. 01 \u2013 07, 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":"Caroline Kingsbury Credit: Press photo Friends from Caroline Kingsbury\u2018s past in Florida\u2019s Evangelical church may be shocked to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[5725,202,204,203,199,201,200,1865],"class_list":["post-416017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-jannus-live","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa-bay-concerts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416017","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=416017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}