Tall Juan, who plays Microgroove in Tampa, Florida on May 2, 2025. Credit: Photo c/o PRIMA CAVIAR
Juan Zaballa is back in town and taller than ever.

The 36-year-old better known as Tall Juan arrives at this Seminole Heights record shop gig still riding high on 2024’s Racoon Nights where he’s traded the Latin flavor from his last outing Tall Juan Plays Cumbia for dizzying, dance-floor-ready psych-pop driven by synths and programmed beats that juxtapose to hard times he details in songs like “My Only Friend” “Bring Him Back.”

Tickets to see Tall Juan play Microgroove in Tampa on Friday, May 2 are still available and start at $10.


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This article appears in Apr 24-30, 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...