Credit: Photo via InfoGibraltar [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)]

Credit: Photo via InfoGibraltar [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)]

Battle of the bands shows normally suck worse than a Sunday-morning hangover. This is one of the few exceptions. As part of Tampa Bay Beer Week, local breweries have assembled bands to compete against each other all in the hopes of dethroning the outfit from Dunedin Brewery, which took the title home last year (helps when a handful of your damn staff is part of some great Bay area projects already). Proceeds from this seriously gut-busting Crowbar show benefit Gasparilla Music Festival’s Recycled Tunes initiative.

Brewery Battle of the Bands, Wed. March 11. Crowbar, Ybor City. cltampa.com 

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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...