Credit: SAILORPOONBAND/Facebook

Credit: SAILORPOONBAND/Facebook

Sometimes a band’s name just catches your eye. It’s a special treat when the sound on the other end makes you just as happy, and that’s exactly what’s happening at The Bends when Austin, Texas psych-rock quintet Sailor Poon brings empowering, wall-shaking songs from a 2017 compilation for a free St. Petersburg concert.

Sailor Poon w/Butch Queen & The Bad Habits/Liquid Pennies. Wed. Dec. 4, 9 p.m. No cover. The Bends, St. Petersburg.

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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...