Clang!, which had a very fun 2018. Credit: Ulysses Luevano

Clang!, which had a very fun 2018. Credit: Ulysses Luevano

Clang!: Demos There were few punk agitators more fun to observe in 2018 than Clang!. The trio’s first show ticked off some olds upset about the band’s accidental re-use of an old Tampa art-rock group’s moniker (Clang, without punctuation), but the dustup died down in time for everyone to enjoy the weird saxophone and muddy, chugging sounds of Clang!’s six-song demo of noisy post-punk.

Scroll through a slideshow of 2018's best Tampa Bay music releases or see and sample all of them here. Call your local record store to see if it is carrying the release.

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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...