Credit: Photo by Brian Mahar

Credit: Photo by Brian Mahar


The Bends is an essential cog in the Tampa Bay music scene, and there’s been no luck involved (just hard work combined with a true desire to make room for local and touring acts). The shotgun-style venue celebrates seven years on the block this weekend, and it’s going to get weird (Pleasures), rocking (Loose Talk), dark (Ortrorasce) and just plain shitty-good (Broom Closet) at this no-cover concert.

The Bends 7-year anniversary w/Pleasures/Loose Talk/Ortrorasce/Broom Closet. Fri. Sept. 13, 8 p.m. No cover. The Bends, St. Petersburg. INFO.

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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...