An intense live concert shot from the audience's perspective, showing a costumed lead performer (guitarist) facing forward. Drums and other musicians are visible on the crowded stage, with the crowd close to the front.
Wolf-Face at Dunedin Brewery in Dunedin, Florida on April 1, 2023. Credit: Dave Decker / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay

There won’t be a more meta moment in rock and roll this weekend, than the one that finds lupine St. Petersburg punk band Wolf-Face taking the stage to raise money for Tampa Bay area animal nonprofit Friends of Strays.

Frontman Michael J. Wolf has a brand new axe to grind (he just went to Redwoods Vintage Guitars to trade a Gibson SG for a Telecaster), and his pack is joined by more than a dozen other bands playing for the cause.

Tickets to Punk For Paws happening at Pinellas Ale Works in St. Petersburg on Saturday, Dec. 6 are $10 at the door.

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This article appears in Nov. 27 – Dec. 03, 2025.

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...