Cathedral Bells Credit: Photo via cathedralbellsmusic/Bandcamp
Matt Messore (who was in early iterations of since-dissolved Florida emo favorite You Blew It!) has grown his solo, bedroom-based dream-pop project into one that includes pals with hearty indie-rock pedigrees (drummer Aaron Gollubier who’s played with Rareflowers and Pynkie; multi-instrumentalist Kyle Hoffer from Kinder Than Wolves).

Messore’s band Cathedral Bells plays Tampa’s Hooch and Hive on Thursday, Nov. 17 in support a March 2022 single (“Fall Into Place/Afterglow”), and will be supported by existential playboys Surf Rock Is Dead touring ahead of Drama, a forthcoming album whose three singles will please fans of The Drums, Surfer Blood and even Hovvdy (the latter of which had to postpone its gig set for this week).

Local self-styled gothwave act Johnstonsons and hometown indie-pop band Soft Bite open the show.

This article appears in Nov 3-9, 2022.

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...