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Tampa emo band Pale Gold plays free St. Petersburg concert this weekend

Critical Hits and Rillian play support at The Bends.

By Ray Roa on Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 3:09 pm

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Pale Gold makes loud music for sad times, and the Tampa emo band is supported by a pair of local favorites (Vic Alvarez’s latest project, Critical Hits, and Rillian, a new band made up of longtime players in the scene) on Saturday for this no-cover show.

Turn on Pale Gold’s 2018 album, High Strung, to hear three fresh-faced dudes play punk that’s riddled with the kind of angst that sticks to the insides of a 40-year-old lifelong Robert Smith idolator.

Critical Hits w/Rilian/Pale Gold. Sat. March 7, 9 p.m. No cover. The Bends, St. Petersburg. local.cltampa.com

<a href="http://palegold.bandcamp.com/album/high-strung">High Strung by Pale Gold</a>

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Ray Roa

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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