Hand Out, which plays Microgroove in Tampa, Florida on May 26, 2018. Credit: Hand Out

Hand Out, which plays Microgroove in Tampa, Florida on May 26, 2018. Credit: Hand Out

New Orleans “power-emo” quartet Hand Out gets an assist from two local bands — alt-rock outfit Old Bones and St. Pete family band Oxford Noland — when it comes to Seminole Heights with a new EP, Blood & Water, in tow. Just $7 gets you in the door, and the good karma fairy will take a sparkly good luck shit on the hood of your car when you throw a little more cash at Hand Out during a visit to the T-shirt table. (Microgroove, Tampa) INFO

Old Bones w/Hand Out/Oxford Noland | SATURDAY 7 p.m., $7 | Microgroove, 4906 N. Floirda Ave., Tampa | 813-667-7089 | facebook.com

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This article appears in May 24-31, 2018.

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...