{"id":441846,"date":"2026-10-29T21:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T21:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/441846\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T21:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T21:08:17","slug":"music-from-the-fringes-of-floridas-music-scene-comes-to-dunedin-for-november-unusual-noise-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/441846\/","title":{"rendered":"Music from the fringes of Florida&#8217;s music scene comes to Dunedin for November &#8216;Unusual Noise&#8217; festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" data-attachment-id=\"370949\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/music-2\/music-from-the-fringes-of-floridas-music-scene-comes-to-dunedin-for-november-unusual-noise-festival\/attachment\/mutant-fusion-collective-facebook\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Mutant-Fusion-Collective-Facebook.jpg?fit=2048%2C1365&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1365\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"Mutant Fusion Collective Facebook\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Mutant Fusion Collective Facebook&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Mutant-Fusion-Collective-Facebook.jpg?fit=780%2C520&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Mutant-Fusion-Collective-Facebook.jpg\" alt=\"A concert performance photograph showing Mutant Fusion Collective performing live on an indoor stage. Captured in a wide horizontal shot under bright magenta, blue, and purple stage lights, the four-piece jazz-rock fusion band performs in front of a stone wall backdrop. On the left, guitarist Kirk Yates plays a red electric guitar in a red long-sleeved shirt; at center, saxophonist Brian Doss performs with a tenor saxophone and synthesizer keyboard on a stand; and in the background, drummer Michael LaPick plays at his drum kit alongside bassist Cabe Crisler.\" class=\"wp-image-370949\"  \/>Mutant Fusion Collective Facebook Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=535580919645850&amp;set=a.122093755586304743\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mutant Fusion Collective \/ Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year, Pinellas County Commissioners <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/arts\/pinellas-commissioners-vote-5-2-to-defund-creative-pinellas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">handed Visit St. Pete-Clearwater money that was supposed to go to Creative Pinellas<\/a>. Part of the distribution of those funds has resulted in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visitstpeteclearwater.com\/featured\/art-everywhere\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cArt Everywhere,\u201d<\/a> a month-long celebration of art. Programming kicks off Sunday and runs through Dec. 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s almost never anything normal about the music at <a href=\"https:\/\/community.cltampa.com\/location\/dunedin-brewery-12511712\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/community.cltampa.com\/location\/dunedin-brewery-12511712\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dunedin Brewery<\/a>, so it makes sense to see the venue staying weird with the grant it got from the tourism agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A day-long music festival includes familiar genres (rap, jazz, rock, soul, funk) all delivered by artists who refuse to be boxed in, be it xylophone-banging Mike Dillon, Miami fusion outfit Electric Kif, experimental jazz trio Chaunces, the Mutant Fusion Collective, or improv-rap specialist Jon Ditty. Zero Context, featuring \u201c100% bespoken music un-conducted by [Dunedin Brewery GM] Mike Bryant\u201d closes it out with a late night set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All of it will be marked by collaborations, the spirit of improvisation and the willingness to take a set into unfamiliar terriory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dunedinbrewery.com\/unusual-noise-grant-funded-event\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/dunedinbrewery.com\/unusual-noise-grant-funded-event\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">There\u2019s no cover for Unusual Noise happening at Dunedin Brewery in Dunedin on Saturday, Nov. 7.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unusual Noise 2026 lineup<\/p>\n<p>Chamberbaes<\/p>\n<p>Chaunces<\/p>\n<p>Electric Kif<\/p>\n<p>Jon Ditty\u2019s Freestyle Improv Circus<\/p>\n<p>Mike Dillon &amp; Joe Marcinek\u2019s Demonstratorium<\/p>\n<p>Mutant Fusion Collective<\/p>\n<p>SIDEMEAT<\/p>\n<p>Skerik<\/p>\n<p>tiny.blips<\/p>\n<p>Zero Context<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mutantfusioncollective.bandcamp.com\/track\/code-rouge\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Code Rouge by Mutant Fusion Collective<\/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-22-28-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oct. 22 \u2013 28, 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":"Mutant Fusion Collective Facebook Credit: Mutant Fusion Collective \/ Facebook Last year, Pinellas County Commissioners handed Visit St.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[121667,202,204,203,199,201,200,1865],"class_list":["post-441846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-dunedin-brewery","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\/441846","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=441846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}