Ray Roa

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Editor-In-Chief, Creative Loafing Tampa Bay

Tampa

Arts and Entertainment, U.S. Regional

As seen in: Creative Loafing Tampa Bay, Art In Your Ear, The Athletic, The Daily Beast, Flipboard, Tampa Bay Times, Consequence, NewsBreak, Detroit Metro Times, Rapid City Journal, San Antonio Current and

Covers: music, travel & leisure, tampa, art, fod, tampa bay, food, craft beers and microbreweries, spirits and distilleries, sports, recreation

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Ray Roa | tampabay.com & Tampa Bay Times

Weekly bylines previewing the best of Tampa Bay's live music calendar.

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It's Tampa Time This Summer

Heat is an inescapable part of Tampa's essence, and while visitors this summer will sweat profusely, they'll …

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Ray Roa | Creative Loafing Tampa

Bylines for Creative Loafing, one of the best sources for events in Tampa, Tampa Restaurants, Tampa concerts …

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Cigar City Brewpub, St. Petersburg rock band team up for new beer

New World Brewery, on any given night, is occupied by musicians entertaining patrons whose taste buds are awa…

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Review / setlist: John Mayer shuts up, lets his guitar and songs do the talking at Tampa's MidFlo...

Thanks to TMZ, John Mayer may never, ever, be able to live down the things that have escaped his own stupid m…

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CL Music Issue: Hardcore/Punk/DIY

Consider this: away from the cover charges and security guards, there exists a world where art and music are …

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David's a Goliath

David Dondero will be nursing a broken right hand when he arrives in Tampa to headline Summer Jam Music Festi…

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Review / photos: Jason Mraz gets easy, breezy and a little political, at 1-800-Ask-Gary Amphithea...

How does someone that spent the early 2000's cutting his teeth on San Diego's coffee shop circuit end up pack…

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Dancing in the sunlight

ANTI-ANTIWARPT Date: Fri., July 26, 2012 The Lowdown: An inevitable reaction to the original Antiwarpt's rapi…

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Music Issue: They've got the St. Pete Beat

Aristotle once said, "Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope." And while "hope" seems to be a d…

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Ray Roa | Consequence Of Sound

Bylines from time at consequenceofsound.net

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Interview: Wayne Coyne (of The Flaming Lips)

The Flaming Lips have been ruling festivals for at least the last two years now, and while one might think th…

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Moving into St. Pete's burgeoning Warehouse Arts District

Flanked on the left by an art installation dubbed "TV Mountain" and on the right by stacks of completed canva…

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