Story Of the Year Credit: Photo via storyoftheyear/Facebook

St. Louis-based hardcore quartet Story of the Year is surely gonna be on cloud nine by the end of the year.

Last week, the group dropped “Real Life,” the first shot from its new deal with SharpTone Records. And in October, the boys are on the deeply-nostalgic bill for Vegas’ When We Were Young festival.

Joining Story of the Year at We Were Young is Hawthorne Heights, which co-headlines this gig happening at Orpheum in Tampa on Friday, Sept. 2.

This article appears in Aug 25-31, 2022.

Josh Bradley is Creative Loafing Tampa Bay's calendar editor. He started as a freelance music writer in 2020 at the age of 18, and after spending years covering, announcing, and previewing concerts in...