Queen of Coins, which plays Crowbar in Ybor City, Florida on June 21, 2025. Credit: Photo via queen_of_coins_/Instagram
Travis Hearne—frontman of mid-2000s rock-punk-country hybrid Tailgunner Joe and the Earls of Slander—now plays dark and riffy new-wave ish rock from the ‘90s with help from Kasandra Bibaz-Hearne and scene luminary Dean Tidey (who’s toured with U2, the Rolling Stones and Coldplay).

The outfit, which dutifully played rock and roll without the sex and drugs, was even named Best New Band in the 2008 Best of the Bay awards.

Queen of Coins’ latest, The Administration EP, was released last weekend, and Hearnes is joined on this bill by pop-punk band High Press, power-pop savant Billy Summer’s Florida project, and future-pop-rock outfit Greymarket.

Tickets to see Queen of Coins play Crowbar in Ybor City on Saturday, June 21 are still available and start at $10.


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This article appears in Jun 19-25, 2025.

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...