Miguel Migs Credit: Photo vi DJMiguelMigs/Facebook
Surviving Gasparilla in South Tampa is a rite of passage, but the real ones keep it together long enough to spend an hour or two at this annual house music throwdown just a few blocks off the madness on Howard Avenue. Staples of the scene man the decks for Houseparilla, and welcome San Francisco house legend Miguel Migs (Moulton Studios, the End-Up) who brought funk and psychedelia to the SanFran sound.

Jask leads late night lineup which kicks off when Depth spins at 10 p.m., but the daytime sets include fellow Bay area house lifers Brian Busto and Chang, plus other favorites ilke Von Garden and Lyndon Uy.

Houseparilla kicks off at Hyde Park Cafe at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 28, and advance tickets are still available for $20.

This article appears in Jan 26 – Feb 1, 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...