Friday night sees two Tampa bands finding footing in the Bay area punk scene (Control System, supporting its 2018 album Uncertainty Reigns; Thorn, playing its first show ever), and it also sees CL’s first encounter with sasscore. The subgenre of hardcore takes a little bit of grindcore, emoviolence, metalcore and moshcore and then mixes in gay tendencies and clever lyrics with some fantastically aggro results. Just listen to “I Am A Trans-Continental Railroad, Please Run A Train On Me,” the searing, 68-second highlight from SeeYouSpaceCowboy’s 7-inch split with Virgina hardcore band secondgradeknifefight (apparently no one likes to hit the spacebar in this genre). It would be burning up Billboard’s sasscore chart right now, if there were such a thing.
SeeYouSpaceCowboy w/Lipschitz/Direct Action/Control System/Thorn. Fri. July 6, 8 p.m. $8. Lucky You Tattoo, 9633 Bay Pines Blvd., St. Petersburg. facebook.com/luckyyou.tattoostudio.
See even more of the Tampa Bay live music lineup by visting cltampa.com/musicweek every Thursday morning.
This article appears in Jul 5-12, 2018.