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Tampa band Sleeping Pills fuses jagged post-punk with garage-y surf riffs and new-wave hooks
The outfit celebrates a new album, ‘Patterns in the Sea,’ in February.
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Tampa’s Social Wreckage blends indie-rock and punk to great effect
This band has made its home right at the intersection of melody and abrasion.
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Tampa’s Pusha Preme blends rap with electro-soul
The masked artist has spent years building traction through sharp lyricism and a strong sense of identity.
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Jupiter Bloom is the indie-rock crew Tampa didn’t know it needed
The band’s releases and live shows alike feel youthful without being naive.
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Tampa’s Miller Lowlifes are the beer-sloshing uncle at the backyard barbecue of pop-punk
The Lowlifes’ full-length album, Pinch Hitters, dropped on storied Tampa punk label A.D.D. Records,
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Seven emerging Tampa Bay artists to watch in 2026 and beyond
The more artists we spoke with, the more we considered what it means to emerge.
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Tampa artist Fary Charles channeled rage, disappointment, and a desire to prove himself into his latest solo show
The artist also known as ‘Junkyard’ mixes music with painting.
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Second-act Tampa artist Mary-Helen Horne discovers printmaking while planning her retirement
Horne describes her work as ‘a celebration of the fragile diversity of our natural world.’
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New work from Tampa artist Patrick Carew explores what it means to experience HIV in the post-prep era
Art insiders know him as the curator of Reverb, a small gallery in Kress Contemporary.
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Meet Jesi Cason, St. Petersburg Month of Photography’s Photo Laureate
Cason has photographed Grammy award-winning musicians, Olympic athletes, realtors and more.
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Zack Wittman’s latest project documents Tampa’s last cigar factories
His work appears in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and more.
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Tampa artist Clancy Riehm has a busy year ahead of her
The Rays and Lightning selected her for Black History Month projects.
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Here are seven Tampa Bay actors and dancers to know in 2026
Every one of these artists pointed to the help they got along the way.
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Polk County’s Justin Brock is a powerful mover who’s developing a choreographic style all his own
He’s creating and starring in a piece for the March 6 edition of Beacon based on an anime about a boy with chainsaw hands.
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Tampa actor Max Carley turned his life around and rediscovered theater
He just won a full scholarship to the Atlantic Acting Program, an affiliate of the renowned Atlantic Theater Company.
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Tampa actor Lance Markeith Felton is incapable of making a false move—on stage, at the mic, or in the classroom
You just saw him as the fierce young civil rights warrior Dasher in ‘When the Righteous Triumph.’
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Pinellas actor Aoifa Maki been hailed as ‘pure magic’ onstage
From her studies at Perkins, John Hopkins and PCCA, she has grown into the realization that the arts can be a career.
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Alaina Rahaim’s nickname in school was ‘Sparkles’–and that’s exactly what she does
The Tampa actor took ballet as a child, but found her true home in an improv class.
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From local stages to TV ads to Tammi Terrell, Tampa Bay actor Jai Shanae can do it all
You may have seen her playing the tomboy-ish Opal in ‘Fat Ham’ at American Stage.
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Business alliance posts legal challenge over meeting discussing South Tampa’s Howard Avenue flood relief project
Attorneys for the City of Tampa say the meeting is not a violation of Sunshine Law.