Tampa Bay indie-rock fans have a chance get drunk on one of the genre’s buzziest bands this summer.
Late last month, 50 limited-edition copies of Alvvays’ gem of an album, Blue Rev, sold-out in minutes, and while the records were filled with the blue flavor of the Canadian malt liquor drink, fans have been drinking up the record since 2022 when it held up as one of the year’s best and benchmark setting power-pop albums.
The show happens in the wake of the band's NPR Tiny Desk debut and three months after Alvvays finds out whether or not its hit single “Belinda Says” is a Grammy-winner for Best Alternative Performance (competition in the category includes boygenius, Lana Del Rey, Paramore and Arctic Monkeys). Subscribe to Creative Loafing newsletters.
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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 in August 2019. Past work can be seen at Suburban Apologist, Tampa Bay Times, Consequence of Sound and The...