A black-and-white live concert photograph of guitarist Sulynn Hago performing on stage at Crowbar in Ybor City. In the sharp foreground, Hago has shoulder-length hair and is wearing a dark, vertically striped button-down shirt. They are looking down with intense focus while playing a white Fender-style electric guitar with a dark pickguard. A microphone stand is positioned just in front of them. In the softly blurred background to the right, a second band member wearing a dark short-sleeve shirt is visible playing a light-colored electric guitar. A bright stage spotlight flares directly behind the microphone stand, cutting through the dark venue.
Sulynn Hago plays Crowbar in Ybor City, Florida on May 14. 2026. Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay

Known for driving some of Tampa’s hardest-hitting rock bands (Career, Feral Babies) and even ripping for Canadian punk giant Propagandhi, expat Tampa guitarist Sulynn Hago came home last Thursday to show off a debut solo full-length, Faith in the Doghouse. Bad, Bad Things and Big Sad played support at Crowbar.

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This article appears in May 14 – 20, 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.