Genre-melting Venezuelan punk band Zeta returns to Tampa on Thursday

It’s hard to believe that Zeta got a jump on its relationship with Tampa Bay just five years ago during a set at Ybor City’s tiny, since-shuttered, Bunker cafe.

On Thursday, Nov. 3 at Hooch and Hive in Tampa, the Venezuelan experimental-punk band now based in the U.S. is three miles away in the West River district playing in support of a nearly year-old album, Todo Bailarlo.

The 11-track outing was recorded, in part, with Abajo Cadenas Orchestra and expertly brings together Zeta’s love of not just unfiltered punk-rock, but also world music and the kinds of sounds you tend to explore after a few bites of a mushroom sando.

This article appears in Oct 27 – Nov 2, 2022.