Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, which plays Orpheum in Tampa, Florida on March 27, 2024. Credit: Photo c/o Tell All Your Friends PR

After a 13-year hiatus and a wildly successful Kickstarter fundraiser, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum has finally returned to the light with a brand-new album (Of the Last Human Being), a genuinely haunting collection featuring songs about death, extinction, and even a five-minute long instrumental that could have easily served as inspiration for James Kirby’s The Caretaker project (inspired by older recordings that are seen as spooky now).

Must know more? The experimental rock outfit’s reunion tour—with support from jack-of-all-trades band member Nils Frykdahl’s side project Faun Fables, as well as Indorphine and Flagman—tackles all four of its albums at Orpheum this week, at its first-ever Tampa proper gig, and its first time back in the Bay area since a 2009 gig at St. Pete’s State Theatre.

Tickets to see Sleepytime Gorilla Museum play Tampa Orpheum on Wednesday, March 27 are still available and start at $25.

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This article appears in Mar 21-27, 2024.