Narrow Head, which plays Crowbar in Ybor City, Florida on May 8, 2024. Credit: Photo by Nate Kahn

Shoegaze gets in bed with pop and grunge on Narrow Head’s new album, Moments of Clarity, where a sound that simultaneously pays homage to both Hum and the Smashing Pumpkins launched frontman Jacob Duarte & co. into a higher echelon touring bands (the Texas-based outfit played Coachella last month).

Wishy, an Indiana band toting an ebullient brand of fuzzy dream-pop opens the show along with Virginia noise-pop outfit Dazy.

Tickets to see Narrow Head play Crowbar in Ybor City on Wednesday, May 8 are still available and start at $20.

This article appears in May 2-8, 2024.

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...