Crunk Witch Credit: Photo via crunkwitchmusic/Facebook
Nerds are all the rage these days, and bass music’s not exempt from the obsession.

Self-styled “nerdy bass-music duo” is driven by Maine-based composers Brandon Miles and Hannah Collen who’ve not only written the score for Nintendo Switch game “Battlesloths” but released a self-titled 2018 album that plays like a kitschy-sexy, 36-minute collection of hyperactive bit-pop that could also please fans of Scissor Sisters, The Killers and and even Prince.

Nerdcore rapper Swell Rell opens alongside Tampa’s own Psych Montano, who recently tore up his set at the Remix open mic in Tampa Heights.

Tickets to see Crunk Witch play Hooch and Hive in Tampa on Friday, March 31 are still available and start at $10.

This article appears in Mar 23-29, 2023.

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...