{"id":188870,"date":"2026-03-12T16:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/188870\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T16:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T16:17:09","slug":"quebecois-electro-producer-cult-member-brings-new-life-to-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/188870\/","title":{"rendered":"Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois electro producer Cult Member brings &#8216;New Life&#8217; to Tampa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"517\" data-attachment-id=\"354415\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/cult-member-courtesy-photo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/CULT-MEMBER-courtesy-photo-scaled.webp?fit=2560%2C1697&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1697\" 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=\"CULT MEMBER courtesy photo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Cult Member&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/CULT-MEMBER-courtesy-photo-scaled.webp?fit=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/CULT-MEMBER-courtesy-photo-scaled.webp?fit=780%2C517&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/CULT-MEMBER-courtesy-photo.webp.jpeg\" alt=\"Musician Liam Hayden, known as Cult Member, standing in a grassy field at sunset. The person wears a black zip-up hoodie with a white skeleton print on the chest, black pants, and a black baseball cap. A long wooden fence and grazing cattle are visible in the background.\" class=\"wp-image-354415\"  \/>Cult Member Credit: Courtesy<\/p>\n<p>House music has so many offshoots, and Liam Hayden plays some of its most popular strains.<\/p>\n<p>Better known as Cult Member (aka FKA GothBoiClique, Thraxxhouse, or Ghoste), the 27-year-old used to make cloud rap inspired by Spaceghostpurrp and Gravity Boys, but he currently plumbs the depths of techno, ambient, and trance music on records that utilize gear like the\u00a0 Roland TR-08, Tascam Portastudio 424, and Elektron Octatrack (as pointed out by the website <a href=\"https:\/\/undergroundunderdogs.com\/2019\/06\/17\/cult-member-ghoste-interview\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/undergroundunderdogs.com\/2019\/06\/17\/cult-member-ghoste-interview\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Underground Underdogs<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>A December 2025 LP, New Life, was an appropriately-named release to jump start this year and drive the Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois producer to our neck of the woods.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/community.cltampa.com\/event\/cult-member-w-body-bag-21250625\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/community.cltampa.com\/event\/cult-member-w-body-bag-21250625\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tickets to see Cult Member play Crowbar in Ybor City on Saturday, March 14 are still available for $29.67.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cultmembr.bandcamp.com\/album\/new-life\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New Life by CULT MEMBER<\/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\/mar-12-18-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mar. 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":"Cult Member Credit: Courtesy House music has so many offshoots, and Liam Hayden plays some of its most&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[7523,88440,1864,135,1865,137,136],"class_list":["post-188870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-crowbar","tag-cult-member","tag-live-music-in-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\/188870","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=188870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}