Fre$h P, who plays Hooch and Hive in Tampa, Florida on October 4, 2019. Credit: Fresh813prince/Facebook

Fre$h P, who plays Hooch and Hive in Tampa, Florida on October 4, 2019. Credit: Fresh813prince/Facebook


If you’d like to see and hear what it’s like to have the pages of Creative Loafing come alive, then you might want to be at Hooch and Hive (“Best New Sound Sytem”) on Friday when Basement Sessions taps Best of the Bay-winning musicians (rapper Fre$h P, jazz trio La Lucha) and visual artists (Conrad Garner, Cory Robinson) then asks them to transform this University of Tampa-area venue into the most happening party in town.

Basement Sessions is a must-peep for a complete Friday night, and we won’t blame you for wanting to stick around for the duration.

Check out the new collab LP from Vern Sr. and Deezy Wee the Reaper (AKA Sparkxy and Dutch) to get warmed up.

Basement Sessions w/Sparkxy and Dutch/La Lucha/Fre$h P and J Roc Jones/Scxtt Aye/King Knoxygen/more. Fri. Oct. 4, 8 p.m. $10. Hooch and Hive, Tampa. brokenmoldentertainment.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...