Dance-punk veterans The Faint are set to take the stage at Zodiac Live in Ybor City this Saturday, November 14, bringing two decades of synth-driven energy to Tampa Bay. The bill also features opener Cozy In The Black and a between-set reunion of Tampa's own Liquid Jesus DJs, with tickets starting at $39.55.
A Saddle Creek Mainstay Returns to Florida
According to Creative Loafing Tampa, The Faint is a dance-punk band long associated with the influential Saddle Creek label, and the current lineup features Reptar's Graham Ulincy on keys. The Tampa stop comes as the band has spent recent years revisiting two of its most beloved releases, Blank-Wave Arcade, from 1999, and Wet from Birth, from 2004, according to the same outlet's report.
Those two records anchor the band's reputation as one of the acts that helped define the early-2000s dance-punk movement while on Saddle Creek, as noted by Consequence. The Faint trace their roots back to Omaha, Nebraska, where the group emerged in the late 1990s, according to Saddle Creek. Last year, the band released anniversary editions of both albums, per Consequence's reporting.
Tampa Stop Part of a Larger Fall Run
The Ybor City show is one stop on a 13-city fall tour that Consequence reports kicked off October 30 in Springfield, Missouri, at The Regency Live. Per the same outlet, the tour wraps up November 15 in Orlando at The Social, putting the Tampa date just a day ahead of the tour's final stop. The band's most recent studio album, Egowerk, came out in 2019, the publication notes.
What to Expect Saturday Night
Opening the show is hyper-punk act Cozy In The Black, with Thee Liquid Jesus DJs spinning between sets as part of what Creative Loafing Tampa describes as a reunion for the local DJ crew. Doors and set times weren't detailed in the available listing, but tickets for the full bill — The Faint, Cozy In The Black, and Thee Liquid Jesus — start at $39.55 at Zodiac Live.
