Intervention Credit: Photo via interventionfl/Facebook

Emo Night Tampa might as well market itself a new music discovery service at this point. Throughout last year, founders Crate Brothers (which runs a Friday radio show on WMNF Tampa 88.5-FM from midnight-2 a.m.) brought some of the state’s most exciting young acts to play free shows across the 813.

The trend continues to kick off the new year. Local favorites Spoiled Rat and P.M. Tiger provide support for Jacksonville outfit Intervention, still riding high on its 2022 release, The World Is Screaming, which will please fans of Jimmy Eat World and even Thursday. Atlanta band Menu rounds things out with the catchiest brand of pop-punk on this no-cover affair.

There’s no cover to attend Emo Night Tampa on Saturday, Jan. 7 at Crowbar in Ybor City, but you must be at least 21 years old.

This article appears in Dec 29, 2022 – Jan 4, 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...