Drummer Jonathan Robbins, who plays with Hollyglen at Crowbar in Ybor City, Florida on Nov. 14, 2020. Credit: Dave Decker

Drummer Jonathan Robbins, who plays with Hollyglen at Crowbar in Ybor City, Florida on Feb. 4, 2023. Credit: Dave Decker

So there's a storm about to pass through the state, and its worst winds are set to hit Tampa Bay tonight. Still, some of you psychos are already planning your live music weekend.

These Tampa Bay live music concerts come at a time when Florida just added 6,257 positive COVID-19 cases to its total count, the highest single-day number since Aug. 15. They also come months after music venues shut down in the spring, many owners struggled to pay rent and feared they wouldn’t be able to stay open much longer without shows.

Be safe when you’re going out, folks. If we fuck this up, we’re looking at the end of much of our live music scene, for a really long time.

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Tampa Bay venues and promoters need you to bug Marco Rubio about saving the live music scene.

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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...