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Microwave’s charming emo-indie likeness can be represented by the title of its latest LP, Death is a Warm Blanket. This nationwide tour blessing Tampa on Friday is in support of that effort, which the band describes as “sonic catharsis incarnate.”

This emo-strong bill’s undercard features alternative band A Will Away, New York-based act Bad Luck, Northeastern hard-rock outfit Weakened Friends, and emo quartet Haunting Voices.

Microwave w/A Will Away/Bad Luck/Weakened Friends. Fri. Feb. 28, 6 p.m. $16. Crowbar, Ybor City. crowbarybor.com

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Kyla Fields is the food critic and former managing editor of Creative Loafing Tampa Bay who started their journey at CL as summer 2019 intern. They are the proud owner of a charming, sausage-shaped, eight-year-old...