It should be common knowledge, but Emo Night Tampa with the Crate Brothers is never really a mopey affair. Tampa band Soft Bite is proof of that. Songs play like upbeat bedroom pop (“Tiles”), pseudo-sultry DIY lounge music (“Panic”), and even stripped-back odes to love (“Let Me Know”).
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...