Nickelback Credit: Photo by Richard Beland
Christmas came early, Tampa Bay. Nickelback, North America’s foremost purveyor or pure, unabashed, five-time-Grammy-nominated butt-rock, is playing Tampa this summer.

Tickets to see Nickelback play Tampa’s MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre on Saturday, July 29 go on sale Friday, Jan. 27. Ticket prices for the band’s only Florida show have yet to be announced.

The tour is in support of Nickelback’s 10th studio album, Get Rollin’—the band’s first in five years —and finds two country openers, Brantley Gilbert and Josh Ross, warming up the show.

This article appears in Jan 19-25, 2023.

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...