Hooch and Hive

Hear that? That’s the sound of Hooch and Hive finally figuring out what it takes to make it at the perennially difficult parcel it moved into over a year ago. That other noise? It’s bands across a handful of genres pumping their work through what’s easily the best new sound system in Tampa Bay (which is worthless without a good front of house sound engineer, by the way). hoochandhive.com 

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This article appears in Sep 19-26, 2019.

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...