Mindwash Credit: Dave Decker
The best costumes are tributes to your heros, and locals are going all in this week. Topping the list of cover band shows is probably this no-cover affair happening on Halloween night at The Hub in downtown Tampa.

The headlining set finds members of thrashy hard-rock band Mindwash plus newish rock band Bad Bad Things  taking on Misfits. In a message, Mindwash told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay it would play “all the bangers” and that “Astro Zombies” will definitely get the treatment.

Amatuer Taxidermy plays the songs of Joyce Manor to open the show.

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This article appears in Oct 27 – Nov 2, 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...