Before heading to the When We Were Young fest, Florida band Mayday Parade stops in Ybor City

Tallahassee-born Mayday Parade is listed on the mind-blowing lineup of the When We Were Young festival taking place in Vegas later this year. But before the band behind “Miserable At Best” takes on such a widely anticipated–and memed—festival, it plays a smaller stage as part of a tour that arrives at The Ritz in Ybor City on Saturday.

Mayday Parade just kicked off its tour with a homecoming show in Tallahassee last weekend, and don’t think that Derek Sanders and his homies forgot about Tampa Bay. The band appears alongside fellow pop punks Real Friends, and indie rock band Magnolia Park.

This article appears in Feb 10-16, 2022.