Outsider, which plays the Brass Mug in Tampa, Florida on August 3, 2019. Credit: Photo via Hit Point Media

Outsider, which plays the Brass Mug in Tampa, Florida on August 3, 2019. Credit: Photo via Hit Point Media

Outsider — a Virginia-based band influenced by Madball, Cro-Mags and No Warning — brings its debut EP, When Love Dies, to a Tampa Bay punk and rock proving ground where the EP’s five tracks of metallic hardcore and high-octane thrash will play nice with the sounds of Sacramento hardcore band Hoods.

Outsider w/Hoods/more. Sat., Aug. 3, 7 p.m. $10-$13. Brass Mug, Tampa. Elevatedbooking.bigcartel.com.

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This article appears in Aug 1-8, 2019.

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...