Weiland, who plays New World Tampa in Tampa, Florida on July 18, 2025. Credit: Photo via gavinweiland/X
Outside of some early-2020s newspaper clippings out of Ohio, there’s not a lot out there about Gavin Huff. The modern internet has plenty to offer though.

YouTube, along with blogs like Highsnobiety, and Complex paint a picture of a Tampa-born songwriter that’s lent a lot of knowhow to other Soundcloud-loving artists who’re also making waves online.

Huff, who performs under his alleged middle name Weiland, floats miles above most of his online infamous peers, and not just for the viral videos and urban legends that surround his origin story. His influences—which range from Kanye to Daft Punk, Imogen Heat and Mike Dean—pepper themselves into Huff’s next-gen alt-pop driven by the sounds of vintage drum machines (Vices, 2022) and club-ready synth (You Can’t Climb the Mountain, 2025)

Opening is Tampa-based artist and DJ 80gawd, playing in support of the Kiss EP.

Tickets to see Weiland play the music hall at New World Tampa on Friday, July 18 are still available for $48.90.

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This article appears in Jul 17-23, 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...