Khruangbin plays outside Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida on March 20, 2022. Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone

Grab your wigs, cool kids, one of the most-beloved bands in indie-rock is headed to Clearwater.

Khruangbin announced a new run of U.S. tour dates today, including three springtime stops in the Sunshine State. The Texas trio released its debut studio album in 2015, but is nominated for Best New Artist in the 2025 Grammy Awards (Tampa rapper Doechii is in the same category).

Known for its wiggy aesthetic and genre-defying instrumental sound that travels between funk, psych-rock and even disco, Khruangbin last played locally in 2022 and is adored in both indie-rock and jam scene circles. Its new album, A La Sala (stylized in all-caps), even features ‘60s Brazilian MPB vibes.

Florida-born experimental Latin-folk producer Roberto Carlos Lange, aka Helado Negro, opens the shows in support of his own 2024 album Phasor.

Tickets to see Khruangbin play the BayCare Sound in Clearwater on Friday, April 18 go on sale to the public on Friday, Jan. 17 and start at $35, according to a press release.

The Khruangbin booking is yet another score for Tampa Bay live music lovers that might’ve never come to fruition without the BayCare Sound. The venue, which opened in 2023, can accommodate 4,000 people under cover and another 5,000 on its lawn.

Khruangbin’s Florida tour includes dates at the award-winning St. Augustine Amphitheatre and Miami’s FPL Solar Amphitheater at Bayfront Park, venues that can accommodate just under 5,000 and 8,500 guests, respectively.

“We said they are our sister in the woods, and we are the brother on the water,” Bobby Rossi, Executive Vice President for Entertainment at Ruth Eckerd Hall, told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay about the need for a St. Augustine Amphitheater-sized venue in the Bay area.

An act like Khruangbin (a Thai word for “airplane” pronounced “k-rung-bin”) that’s outgrown large clubs but not yet graduated into arenas might’ve skipped over our neck of the woods had a venue with BayCare Sound’s seating capacity not opened.

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