{"id":161272,"date":"2026-02-19T15:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/161272\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T15:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:19:08","slug":"brooklyn-electro-quartet-model-actriz-brings-gripping-new-lp-to-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/161272\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooklyn electro quartet Model\/Actriz brings gripping new LP to Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" data-attachment-id=\"352674\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/modelactrizbandcamp\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/modelactrizBandcamp.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1200,800\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"modelactrizBandcamp\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Model\/Actriz&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/modelactrizBandcamp.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/modelactrizBandcamp.jpg?fit=780%2C520&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/modelactrizBandcamp.jpg\" alt=\"Brooklyn post-punk band Model\/Actriz members Cole Haden, Jack Wetmore, Ruben Radlauer, and Aaron Shapiro posing on a dark, rocky coastline at night. They are wearing hoodies and puffer jackets, illuminated by a camera flash against a pitch-black background.\" class=\"wp-image-352674\"  \/>Model\/Actriz Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/f4.bcbits.com\/img\/0039112661_10.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kane Ocean \/ modelactriz\/Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not uncommon to see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.modelactriz.com\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.modelactriz.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Model\/Actriz<\/a>\u2019s moniker attached to remixes for other artists like Folly Group or The Armed (and even producing standout tracks for songwriters like Charlotte Weinman of Horsepower).<\/p>\n<p>Darlings of Brooklyn\u2019s indie-electro scene, the quartet broke through in 2023 with <a href=\"https:\/\/modelactriz.bandcamp.com\/album\/dogsbody\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/modelactriz.bandcamp.com\/album\/dogsbody\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dogsbody<\/a> and completely arrived last summer with Pirouette, an 11-track, heart-pumping outing that\u2019s gay AF and painfully-introspective, too.<\/p>\n<p>Gripping from the opening of \u201cVespers\u201d until the final, stabbing naked breaths of \u201cBaton,\u201d it\u2019ll be cathartic to hear the album come to life after an opening set from Miami-based techno producer Allan Gallego.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/modelactriz.bandcamp.com\/album\/pirouette\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pirouette by Model\/Actriz<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/altnewsfoundation.org\/cl-tampa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pitch in to help make the Tampa Bay Journalism Project a success.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/tampa\/NewsletterSignup\/Page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to Creative Loafing newsletters.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAiECLjru3gB6BLYKOKFLfkVZsqFAgKIhAi467t4AegS2CjihS35FWb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google News<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbreak.com\/@c\/1599764?s=01\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NewsBreak<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/CreativeLoafingTampa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cltampabay\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cltampabay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/cltampabay.bsky.social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BlueSky<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"collection-link has-small-font-size\">This article appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/collections\/feb-12-18-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Feb. 12 \u2013 18, 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead his 2016 intro letter\u00a0and disclosures from 2022 and 2021.\u00a0Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/author\/rroa\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Ray Roa\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Model\/Actriz Credit: Kane Ocean \/ modelactriz\/Bandcamp It\u2019s not uncommon to see Model\/Actriz\u2019s moniker attached to remixes for other&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1864,77221,23390,135,1865,137,136],"class_list":["post-161272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-live-music-in-tampa","tag-model-actriz","tag-new-world-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-concerts","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}