The Linda Lindas roll into Tampa this weekend touring behind their first major-label album, bringing a sound that's expanded into go-go pop, 1980s textures and trashy riffs to the 700-capacity Orpheum. The Los Angeles quartet — Eloise Wong, Lucia de la Garza, Mila de la Garza and Bela Salazar — plays the North Nebraska Avenue venue on October 25, with tickets starting at $39.52 and still available as of Wednesday.
The show lands as the band supports its third studio LP, Gotta Get Out, released on Reprise/Warner Records last August. As reported by Creative Loafing Tampa, the record marks The Linda Lindas' first release on a major label and includes a high-profile collaboration with Hayley Williams. Per the same outlet, the band is on track to own their masters in 12 years, a detail that underscores how the group's deal differs from a typical major-label arrangement.
Gotta Get Out features the Williams collaboration "Closer" alongside the environmental protest track "Blood on Our Hands," according to Consequence. That outlet notes the album is the band's first studio LP written entirely together in the same room, a shift from the piecemeal writing process behind earlier releases.
From Viral Library Clip to Stadium Stages
The Linda Lindas' path to a major-label deal traces back to May 2021, when a video of the band performing "Racist, Sexist Boy" at the Cypress Park branch of the Los Angeles Public Library during AAPI Heritage Month went viral, racking up millions of views within days, per the Los Angeles Times. Drummer Mila de la Garza co-wrote the song following an anti-Asian encounter at school at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the paper reported. Williams publicly championed the band on social media immediately after that performance, the Times noted, a relationship that eventually led to shared tour dates and this year's collaboration track.
Before signing with Reprise/Warner, the band released two albums on the independent punk label Epitaph Records — their 2022 debut Growing Up and 2024's No Obligation, according to Wikipedia. The band members wrote No Obligation during school breaks while still juggling middle and high school. In the summer of 2024, The Linda Lindas opened for Green Day on its Saviors Tour, playing stadium dates alongside The Smashing Pumpkins and Rancid, Consequence reported — experience that followed earlier opening slots for Bikini Kill's 2019 reunion shows and Paramore's 2023 tour.
A Family Business Behind the Boards
Producer Carlos de la Garza, a two-time Grammy winner and former drummer for the ska-punk band Reel Big Fish, has produced all three of The Linda Lindas' studio albums. He's also the father of band members Lucia and Mila de la Garza, according to Headliner Magazine, which notes he has also produced or engineered records for Paramore, Wolf Alice and Death Cab for Cutie. Bandmate Eloise Wong also comes from a family steeped in Asian American alternative culture — her father, Martin Wong, co-founded Giant Robot, an influential Asian American pop culture magazine established in the 1990s, according to TheWrap.
The band's touring schedule has carried a civic-minded undercurrent this fall alongside the music. Early voting kicked off Monday, and the week before, during a performance in Georgia, Lucia de la Garza told the crowd that every voice, vote and election counts, even if it isn't the big one, according to Creative Loafing Tampa's report.
Opening Act Brings Pacific Northwest Circus Rock
Opening the Orpheum show is The Rat Utopia Experiment, a girl-fronted alternative circus-rock band formed in Tacoma, Washington, whose original members built a regional following while mostly under 18. The group released singles including "Creature Comfort" and "Lobotomize Me" ahead of its fall 2026 tour, according to its Spotify profile.
The Orpheum itself represents a piece of Tampa's shifting live music landscape. The venue relocated to its current 700-capacity space at 14802 N Nebraska Ave in 2022 after two decades operating in Ybor City, a move driven by rising costs and redevelopment pressure in the historic entertainment district, according to Creative Loafing Tampa's earlier reporting. General admission tickets at the room average around $56, according to Vivid Seats, putting the $39.52 starting price for The Linda Lindas' show on the more accessible end of the venue's typical pricing.
The band's rise has become something of a touchstone for Los Angeles's punk lineage more broadly. Hoodline's coverage of Alice Bag's De Los podcast interview cited The Linda Lindas as examples of young Los Angeles musicians carrying the city's Latino punk legacy forward, following the band's earlier stadium runs with Green Day and festival bills alongside Tom Morello.
