Credit: Photo via Ground Control Touring

Credit: Photo via Ground Control Touring

Fort Lauderdale’s Gouge Away has long been a darling of the underground hardcore scene, but the rest of the world finally started to catch on with the release of the quartet’s new, Jeremy Bolm-produced album, Burnt Sugar.

The 11-track release finds Christina Michelle retaining the vulnerability and honesty from 2016’s , Dies while adding another layer of menacing, brooding angular hard-rock in the process.

Get to Crowbar early to see a CL favorite, Horsewhip, open the show.

Gouge Away w/Jeromes Dream/Soul Glo/Horsewhip. Sun. Sept. 29, 5 p.m. $15. Crowbar, Ybor City. crowbarybor.com.

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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...