Kennedyxoxo, who plays Orpheum in Tampa, Florida on Feb. 16, 2025. Credit: Photo via dietcodeine/Twitter
Electro-emo is a thing, right?

If so, Kennedyxoxo has the sound pinned down on “Bull In a China Shop” and “Mocha’s Song” (both titles stylized in all-lowercase) where he brings all the lyrical dexterity of rappers like Lil Uzi Vert to confessional, bedroom pop songs ripe for a sundown set during 97X’s Next Big Thing.

The self-proclaimed “LeBron James of Messing Things Up” opens for Nicholas Jordan Kerr-Carpenter, the rapper and songwriter better known as Guardin.

Tickets to see Guardin and Kennedyxoxo play Tampa Orpheum on Sunday, March 16 are still available and start at $20.

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This article appears in Mar 13-19, 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...