Happy Friday party people. If you're still nursing a hangover from last night, take a look outside your window (or better yet open it and smell the fresh air) because it's beautiful in Tampa today.

Big Guava Music Festival
May 8 & 9 – MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre

Gates open at 3 p.m. for this weekend's Big Guava Music Festival where almost three-dozen acts ranging from Ryan Adams to James Blake to Jenny Lewis, and even Passion Pit and The Strokes will be taking over the old Gary amphitheater for a day-and-a-half of indie rock, folk & electro revelry.

Creative Loafing will have boots on the ground this weekend, and we'll be steadily annoying everyone around us by capturing all the best parts of #BigGuava15 on our mobile cellular devices. Follow the Instagram feed below to see our pics tossed in with your own (use the hashtag #BigGuava15) and then see a stream of tweets from CL's team (we're using #CreativeGuaving) to catch links to live streams and random thoughts from the pit.

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...