Better Than This Credit: Photo via hoochandhive/Facebook
If you speak Spanish to Better Than This to impress the Miami band, it just might work, and you have a chance on Friday, Aug. 12 at Hooch and Hive in downtown Tampa.

But even if you no hablo Español, you’ll still want to be in the West River district when the jangly garage-rock outfit with seafoam in its hair headlines an indie-flavored bill alongside pop-punk meddling partystarter Taverns and noisy emo quartet Frogs Show Mercy.

This article appears in Aug 4-10, 2022.

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...