A young person outdoors wearing large red-tinted aviator sunglasses, gazing slightly past the camera with a neutral expression. The photo has a vintage, sun-washed look with trees and a chain-link fence blurred in the background.
A crop of the artwork for Sorry Barb’s ‘Bitter Seed’ EP. Credit: sorrybarb/Bandcamp

There aren’t a lot of changes to see Sorry Barb, but the Tampa art-pop band has been out and about lately.

The quintet plays a no-cover set in support of heart-wrenching Bitter Seed, an EP released last Halloween, featuring harmony-drenched folk tune “Mountain Air” and equally melancholy track “Thief.”

There’s no cover to see Sorry Barb play The Bends in St. Petersburg on Friday, Oct. 3.

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This article appears in Sept. 25 – Oct. 1, 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...