Camping In Alaska, which plays Crowbar in Ybor City, Florida on Feb. 7, 2025. Credit: Photo via CampingInAlaska/Facebook

A dozen years ago, Camping In Alaska introduced its to listeners by asking emo fans to Please Be Nice (the title of the Alabama outfit’s 2013 debut LP, stylized in all lowercase).

After going on break after a 2016 album, frontman Austin Davis got the band back together for a 2022 comeback that’s still on the road, this year celebrating a fourth full-length, Eggbeater Jesus where Camping In Alaska channels stalwart sounds of the genre (Brand New, Piebald, Into It! Over It!) in its own special slacker take on indie-rock.

Tickets to see Camping In Alaska play Crowbar in Ybor City on Friday, Feb. 7 are still available for $25.

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This article appears in Jan 30 – Feb 5, 2025.

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...