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Photos: The Academy Is brings stacked, mid-aughts emo gig to Ybor City

Hard hearts were crashing in a crowded room.

Drummer Andy Mrotek came down with food poisoning at the last second—causing the band’s truck driver Duane Hewins Jr. to fill his shoes and bang the cans on tunes he already knew—so a handful of songs off the normal setlist were cut to make way for a quick, solo acoustic set of deep cuts spearheaded by frontman William Beckett.

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