The Red Pears, which play Crowbar in Ybor City, Florida on Sept. 24, 2024. Credit: Photo by Robert Nunez
The spirit of early-2000s indie-rock is alive and well thanks to bands like The Red Pears which channels the aesthetics of Interpol, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Strokes into songs like “Didn’t Realize.”

The El Monte trio has made it big in its home state of California where it’s played The Forum in Los Angeles and even Coachella, and is back in Florida where they’ve fallen in love with the Latino culture of cities like Miami.

And while the band’s drawn comparisons to older, New York-centrick acts of yore, it told Remezcla that The Red Pears probably had a different road to success. “I’m not saying that they didn’t [work hard], but I feel like we had to work a lot harder because of our skin tone,” guitarist Henry Vargas added.

Oakland rock quartet Ultra Q (FKA Mt. Eddy) opens along with Chino, California garage-rock outfit The High Curbs.

Tickets to see The Red Pears play Crowbar in Ybor City on Tuesday, Sept. 24 are still available and start at $20.

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This article appears in Sep 12-18, 2024.

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...