A concert festival photograph showing Paramore at Austin City Limits Music Festival at Zilker Park in Austin, Texas on Oct. 9, 2022. Captured in a wide horizontal shot during an outdoor stage performance, lead vocalist Hayley Williams sings intensely into a stand-mounted microphone with her bright orange hair whipping around her face. She wears long orange mesh arm sleeves and a dark gray oversized graphic t-shirt dress, performing alongside a touring guitarist with an afro playing a white electric guitar to her left under bright outdoor sunlight.
Paramore plays Zilker Park in Austin, Texas on Oct. 9, 2022. Credit: Tracy May / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay

After a short summer break, the Bay area’ beloved Emo Night Tampa series kicks off its 12th year this weekend with a Halloween ritual: an all-covers show where local favorites take on the genre’s most revered bands.

Paraless—a supergroup of sorts featuring members of Tampa and Orlando bands like Bad Bad Things, Pet Lizard, and Skeletizer—cover Paramore while “Bad, Bad Cowboy” takes on Australian pub-rock outfit Amyl and the Sniffers.

Anything kind of goes on Oct. 31 and having this show at The Hub, a downtown dive bar known for heavy pours, will only add to the madness.

There’s no cover to see Paraless and Bad Bad Cowboy at The Hub in Tampa on Saturday, Oct. 31.

The Hub

719 N Franklin St., Tampa

(813) 229-1553

Bar/Pub, Music Venue

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This article appears in Oct. 22 – 28, 2026.

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...