Smelter Credit: Smelter/Bandcamp

After landing in the same room last October, Miami indie-rock band Palomino Blond is back in Tampa’s West River district. Supporting this time, however, is South Florida rock band Smelter, which plays shoegaze-y stoner-rock that teeters on emo

Philip Charos brings Háros—a new St. Petersburg band that made its live debut late last month playing sprawling, moody rock—to open the show.

Tickets to see Palomino Blond with Smelter and Háros at Tampa’s Hooch and Hive on Saturday, Jan. 14 are on sale now for $12-$15.

This article appears in Jan 5-11, 2023.

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...