Pet Rock Credit: Photo via Pet Rock/Bandcamp
Tampa band Pet Rock delivered its debut full-lengthKing Sad last week, and it’s been kicking and screaming in the best way ever since.

On Friday at Tampa’s New World Brewery, the band properly celebrates its eight-track, 27-minute wallop of power-pop by welcoming local fans to come around to New World’s indoor music hall.

Openers for the gig include indie-leaning cohorts who play a similarly rollicking sound.

This article appears in Jun 2-8, 2022.

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...