Stripes, which plays Suite E Studios in St. Petersburg, Florida on April 18, 2025. Credit: Photo via stripes520/Isnstagram
Suite E Studios continues its emergence as a reliable venue for live, original music, and welcomes Brooklyn indie-rock band Stripes.

Fresh off the release of a melancholy spring single, “Always Late” (stylized in all-lowercase), Stripes can also turn up the fuzz and jangle on songs like the catchy “Forever, It Won’t Change” and “Sharp Knife.”

Psych-rock band The Venus makes a rare appearance as part of a solid trio of homegrown openers.

Tickets to see Stripes play Suite E Studios in St. Petersburg on Friday, April 18 are still available for $15.

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This article appears in Apr 10-16, 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...