Pohgoh: Secret Club In the new year, Tampa rock band Pohgoh will open for hero emo outfit Mineral. Last fall, the band fronted by songwriter Susie Ulrey, coaxed punk rock patriarch Vic Bondi (Articles Of Faith, Alloy and Jones Very) out of his chair and into the crowd to catch a set which he described as “easily one of the best I saw at Fest — epic, immediate and amazing.”
All of it is happening on the heels of Secret Club, the band’s first full-length album since a 1997 debut that ushered in a 20-year hiatus that was shoved aside thanks to one of the most transparent, and indelibly catchy, power-pop albums to be released in Tampa (or anywhere in the world) in 2018.
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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This article appears in Dec 27, 2018 – Jan 3, 2019.