Sonic Graffiti and Soapbox Soliloquy. Credit: Bandcamp/Soapbox Soliloquy

Sonic Graffiti and Soapbox Soliloquy. Credit: Bandcamp/Soapbox Soliloquy

Sonic Graffiti and Soapbox Soliloquy: Ghost-A-Go Go 7-inch split The latest iteration of the Soapbox Soliloquy family band may be its best yet, and while we’re not going to be able to listen to a forthcoming album (Entartete Musik, due at the end of the year), this side of a split wth Sonic Graffiti is a muscular, rock and roll party driven by mando and the otherworldly gang vocals on “The Dead Cold.” The split itself was released last year and sold-out quick, but parts of it hit the web in 2018, so consider it a bonus to this list.

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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...