Two-stage DIY music festival comes to Ybor City this weekend

By Ray Roa on Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 2:48 pm

Photo by Macey Padoll via peacecultbandI/nstagram

Peace Cult, who plays Crowbar in Ybor City, Florida on July 13, 2024.

Indie venues like Crowbar face significant threats to their existence, but the local scene is never short on bands ready and willing to play their stages.

In Ybor City this weekend, organizers of DIY Fest II have assembled more than a dozen of the Bay area’s most-seasoned live acts who’ll take over two stages and play more or less every strain of rock from third-wave emo (Hollyglen), and indie-pop (Peace Cult, Mak), to Americana (Have Gun, Will Travel), grunge (Hovercar), electro (Fantastical Tigers), and more subgenre-bending sounds (Discord Theory, Bangarang, Pilot Jonezz).

Tickets to DIY Fest II at Crowbar in Ybor City on Saturday, July 13 are still available and start $20.
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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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