Shovels & Rope, which plays Crowbar in Ybor City, Florida on March 7, 2025. Credit: Photo by Sully Sullivan
Two decades after its inception, Dualtone and New West alum Shovels & Rope is still on the road and relevant as ever.

Wife and husband Cary Ann Hearst and Michael Trent—who also curate the High Water Festival in their hometown of Charleston—spent the fall of 2023 playing a bare bones acoustic tour, but are ready to turn the volume back up as they play songs from a 2024 album, Something Is Working Up Above My Head, a collection of tunes that doesn’t veer from the band’s signature, garage-rock, Americana sound.

One of the Felice Brothers, James, opens.

Tickets to see Shovels & Rope play Crowbar in Ybor City on Friday, March 7 are still available and start at $27.

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This article appears in Feb 27 – Mar 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...