Genre-melting Venezuelan punk band Zeta returns to Tampa on Thursday

The group's psychedelic new album melds unfiltered punk-rock with world music.

click to enlarge Zeta - Photo by Gabe Lug
Photo by Gabe Lug
Zeta
It’s hard to believe that Zeta got a jump on its relationship with Tampa Bay just five years ago during a set at Ybor City’s tiny, since-shuttered, Bunker cafe.

On Thursday, Nov. 3 at Hooch and Hive in Tampa, the Venezuelan experimental-punk band now based in the U.S. is three miles away in the West River district playing in support of a nearly year-old album, Todo Bailarlo.

The 11-track outing was recorded, in part, with Abajo Cadenas Orchestra and expertly brings together Zeta’s love of not just unfiltered punk-rock, but also world music and the kinds of sounds you tend to explore after a few bites of a mushroom sando.

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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...
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