Softcult, which plays New World Brewery in Tampa, Florida on Feb. 16, 2024. Credit: Photo by Kaylee Widdoes
Canadian rock duo Softcult—one of Stereogum’s 2023 Bands To Watch—just released a new song, “Shortest Fuse,” where twins Mercedes and Phoenix Arn-Horn roast capitalism over a bed of dreamy shoegaze.

“The benefits of capitalism are rarely equally distributed, accruing wealth to a very small percentage of the population. Built on the notion of greed, benefitting only by paying workers less than what their labor is worth, it’s difficult to not become disenfranchised with capitalism when you exist in this reality and see no end in sight,” the band wrote in a statement.

Arizonian outfit Glixen opens the show fresh off the release of its heavy new single “Foreversoon.”

Tickets (because, capitalism) to see Softcult play the Music Hall at New World Brewery in Tampa on Friday, Feb. 16 are still available for $20.

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This article appears in Feb 8-14, 2024.

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...