A dynamic live concert photograph of Martin Johnson, lead singer of Boys Like Girls, performing on stage. Johnson is captured in a high-energy moment, singing into a microphone with their mouth open. They have shaggy dark hair and are wearing a black leather motorcycle jacket over a white unbuttoned shirt and dark pants. The stage is bathed in dramatic red and orange lighting, with a drum kit and amplifiers visible in the blurred background. The atmosphere is intense and cinematic.
Boys Like Girls plays Hard Rock Center in Tampa, Florida on April 22, 2026. Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay

Elder millennials dusted off their old PacSun and Hot Topic clothes last Wednesday night when stalwarts of the early-2000s emo scene played an intimate set at Tampa’s Hard Rock Center. Gainesville’s Arrows In Action and IDKHOW—a band featuring ex-Panic! At the Disco touring member and Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!-era co-songwriter Dallon Weekes—supported Boys Like Girls at the show.

Arrows in Action Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Arrows in Action Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Arrows in Action Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Boys Like Girls Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Boys Like Girls Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Boys Like Girls Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Boys Like Girls Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Boys Like Girls Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Boys Like Girls Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Boys Like Girls Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Boys Like Girls Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Boys Like Girls Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Boys Like Girls Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Boys Like Girls Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
iDKHow Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
iDKHow Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
iDKHow Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
iDKHow Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
iDKHow Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
iDKHow Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
iDKHow Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
iDKHow Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
iDKHow Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
iDKHow Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
iDKHow Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
iDKHow Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
iDKHow Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
iDKHow Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
iDKHow Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
iDKHow Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
iDKHow Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay

This article appears in Apr. 23 – 29, 2026.

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...

Dave Decker is a songwriter and photographer living in Tampa Bay.