Sleigh Bells, which plays The Ritz in Ybor City, Florida on May 28, 2025. Credit: Photo by David Perez

An indie-rock band with heart, heart, heart is back in action and headed to Tampa.

Sleigh Bells recently announced “Wanna Start a Band?,” its first new release in over three years, and is celebrating with a North American tour that starts in May.

The Brooklyn-based duo, composed of guitarist Derek Miller and singer Alexis Krauss (pictured above at Luna Park in Coney Island), cemented its space in millennial music fans’ hearts with its first album, Treats, which delivered a loud, dancy-punk sound that largely defined the early 2010s.

And almost 25 years later, the pair is still going strong.

“Derek started messing with the riff for this song around 2014,” Krauss said in a press release. “It needed a lot of work but the spark was there. For us, this song is a reminder of how we started but it’s also the first part of a new story we want to tell…”

The release comes from Sleigh Bells’ forthcoming album, Bunky Becky Birthday Boy due April 4 via Mom+Pop Music (the title is an allusion to life and death). A video for the LP’s second single, “Bunky Pop,” is streaming below.

Tickets to see Sleigh Bells play The Ritz in Ybor City on Wednesday, May 28 are still available and start at $30.

Other Florida stops on the tour include Orlando (May 29, Plaza live) and Fort Lauderdale (May 30, Culture Room). Another Brooklynite, pop-rapper Sophie Hunter opens the show.