Z!ster w/Pilot Jonezz/Domino Pink/Spiderwall Thursday, Aug. 28. 7 p.m. $12 & up. Music hall at New World Brewery, Tampa Credit: Photo via zlister.net

Atlanta artist Zl!ster embodies the interests of a new generation of genre-agnostic music lovers. On the surface, songs play like hip-hop, but Z meanders into indie-rock and pop, too.

That unbridled joy likely comes from the attitude Z!ster adopted after nearly dying when he smashed into a semi truck on the interstate. Some of the Bay area’s equally-joyous bands—including Pilot Jonezz and Domino Pink —open the show.

Tickets to see Zl!ster play the music hall at New World Tampa on Thursday, Aug. 28 are still available and start at $12.

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This article appears in Aug 14-20, 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...