Rarity Credit: Photo via raritytheband/Instagram

After the last few months of living in America—especially as Floridians—we could all use some Canadian punk in our lives.

Rarity, a four-piece straight outta Ontario, doesn’t have any post-COVID music out at the moment, but for now this gig alongside Richmond punk band Telltale and Atlanta pop rock group Glimmers is more than enough to get us to exhale.

See the band next Thursday, Aug. 18 at Hooch and Hive in Tampa where Telltale and Glimmers open the show.

This article appears in Aug 4-10, 2022.

Josh Bradley is Creative Loafing Tampa Bay's calendar editor. He started as a freelance music writer in 2020 at the age of 18, and after spending years covering, announcing, and previewing concerts in...