Alex Kapranos took Tampa out last night, when his rock band Franz Ferdinand made its Tampa Bay debut a full two decades after its breakout eponymous debut album.

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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...