Music

Atlanta experimental psych-rock band Chew is back in Tampa on Sunday

Highway Advisory Radio opens the show.

by Ray Roa August 30, 2023April 2, 2025

Chew’s last Bay area gig was three years ago, a month before a covid vaccine was even available. At the time, promoters wrote that anyone who wore a mask would win a prize, but a lot’s changed since then. For starters, about 80,000 have died in Florida after contracting the disease.

There’s also yet another new variant floating around, but the Atlanta band still plays a potent amalgamation of psych-rock and experimental-electro this weekend. A familiar local outfit—Highway Advisory Radio, which played alongside Chew at that 2020 Mermaid Tavern show—opens once again.

Tickets to see Chew play Hooch and Hive in Tampa on Sunday, Sept. 3 are still available for $10-$13.

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This article appears in Aug 24-30, 2023.

Ray RoaEditor-in-chief

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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... More by Ray Roa