Last Saturday's show mentioned in latest Weekly Planet! from Scott Harrell's column

A bunch of the notices about parties last weekend went out of their way to mention the full moon, which is weird, because according to Navy websites, time-and-date websites and my eyeballs, there wasn't one. But that didn't stop the Tampa Regional Eclectic Church (read: pagans) from whooping it up with a scavenger hunt and party. Or keep the Sierra Club from howling at it during a fundraiser out at West Tampa's Sweetwater Organic Community Farm. Or lessen the enthusiasm of the 400 or so kids that gathered at St. Pete's State Theatre Saturday night to celebrate a style of music many wrongly assume to be deader than disco.

But hell, even disco's back these days. I don't know if ska ever really left, because I'm neither a mod nor, like, 17, but the show celebrating the release of relatively new Bay area ska band The Cohorts' first CD Hold My Head Up ably demonstrated the genre's continuing popularity. The overwhelmingly underage throng arrived en masse early to catch Can't Do It and a final farewell set by Cohorts principal Mitchy B's former band. They stayed through tight, fun local favorites RudeSquad (whose performance saw the stage crowded with singing, dancing friends and fans several times) to see the headliner.

The Cohorts ran through a show-closing set that owed more to ska's traditional roots and second-wave British Two-Tone influence than the pop-punk-fueled generica that came to define the style at the end of the '90s. Outside, parents pulled into parking slots on Central Avenue, diving into books or cell phone conversations, waiting for their sweaty spawn. Inside, the bartenders waited for somebody, anybody, old enough to buy a beer and tip.