We Are the Asteroid, which plays The Potion Portal in St. Petersburg, Florida on Dec. 9, 2023. Credit: Photo via wearetheasteroid/Facebook
The closure of Born Free Pub & Grill has seen other venues picking up shows that would’ve landed at the Tampa venue, and now rooms in St. Pete are helping out while Born Free finds a new home.

This gig finds Texas psychedelic noise-rock export We Are the Asteroid taking over  The Potion Portal, a space inside an old video game bar (pinball machines are still in the other room). The band, on the road supporting a 2023 album Wata You, A Lion Tamer?, is joined by St. Pete punk favorite Permanent Makeup and The Pilot Waves.

Tickets to see We Are the Asteroid play St. Pete’s The Potion Portal on Saturday, Dec. 9 are still available and cost $13.

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This article appears in Nov 30 – Dec 6, 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...