{"id":425567,"date":"2026-10-12T14:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T14:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/425567\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T14:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T14:07:12","slug":"st-petes-open-house-conspiracy-marks-15th-anniversary-with-set-from-chicago-house-dj-vick-lavender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/425567\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete&#8217;s Open House Conspiracy marks 15th anniversary with set from Chicago house DJ Vick Lavender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"513\" data-attachment-id=\"369579\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/news\/tampa-bay-news\/st-petes-open-house-conspiracy-marks-15th-anniversary-with-set-from-chicago-house-dj-vick-lavender\/attachment\/vick-lavender-bandcamp-crop\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Vick-Lavender-Bandcamp-crop.png?fit=700%2C513&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"700,513\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"Vick Lavender Bandcamp crop\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Vick Lavender &lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Vick-Lavender-Bandcamp-crop.png?fit=700%2C513&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Vick-Lavender-Bandcamp-crop.png\" alt=\"A promotional portrait photograph showing Vick Lavender. Captured in a close-up shot, Vick Lavender looks forward while wearing large aviator-style wire-frame eyeglasses, a ribbed olive-green knit beanie, a grey collared shirt, and featuring a trimmed grey-and-white beard and mustache, set against an indoor backdrop under soft natural lighting.\" class=\"wp-image-369579\"  \/>Vick Lavender  Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/f4.bcbits.com\/img\/a3571909062_1x1_700.avif\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">vicklavender1 \/ Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hard to believe, but St. Petersburg dance music curator <a href=\"https:\/\/openhouseconspiracy.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/openhouseconspiracy.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Open House Conspiracy<\/a> has been at it for a decade-and-a-half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To mark the anniversary, the group\u2014which has brought the likes of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/music-2\/trax-records-mystic-bill-plays-pride-weekend-dj-set-in-st-pete\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/music-2\/trax-records-mystic-bill-plays-pride-weekend-dj-set-in-st-pete\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mystic Bill <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/music-2\/detroit-techno-producer-patrice-scott-leads-tampa-bays-club-calendar-12180520\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/music-2\/detroit-techno-producer-patrice-scott-leads-tampa-bays-club-calendar-12180520\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patrice Scott <\/a>to town\u2014welcomes Chicago scene staple <a href=\"https:\/\/vicklavender1.bandcamp.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/vicklavender1.bandcamp.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vick Lavender<\/a> to the warehouse district. Expect to hear the Sophisticado Recordings boss show off stuff he picked up working with acid-house producer Jerry McCalister and his Strictly Jaz Unit co-conspirators Glenn Underground and Boo Williams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/open-house-conspiracy-15-year-anniversary-with-vick-lavender-chi-tickets-2002100137406\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/open-house-conspiracy-15-year-anniversary-with-vick-lavender-chi-tickets-2002100137406\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tickets for the Open House Conspiracy 15-year anniversary happening Saturday, Oct. 10  at Suite E Studios in St. Petersburg are still available for $19.10.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vicklavender1.bandcamp.com\/album\/digi-vaults-vol-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Digi Vaults Vol. 1 by Vick Lavender<\/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\/oct-08-14-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oct. 08 \u2013 14, 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":"Vick Lavender Credit: vicklavender1 \/ Bandcamp Hard to believe, but St. Petersburg dance music curator Open House Conspiracy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200,9118,1865],"class_list":["post-425567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-suite-e-studios","tag-tampa-bay-concerts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425567","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=425567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}