Unsane, which plays Crowbar in Ybor City, Florida on July 24, 2018. Credit: Dan Joeright

Unsane, which plays Crowbar in Ybor City, Florida on July 24, 2018. Credit: Dan Joeright

✔️= Critic's Pick

✔️ Unsane w/Wrong/Horsewhip/Bloodlet/Yashira In the early '90s, Matador Records took Unsane under its wing and let the New York City band dispatch a pioneering, loud and violent noise-rock sound toward the headbanghing masses. Pete Shore and the late Charlie Ondras — Unsane’s original bassist and drummer — aren’t in the lineup anymore, but founding member Chris Spencer is still there to lend grit and hostility to old favorites and new stuff from Unsane’s latest album, Sterilize. A CL favorite, Horsewhip, opens the show in the midst of recording its debut full-length. (Crowbar, Ybor City) INFO

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This article appears in Jul 19-26, 2018.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...