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Jaron Jammer playing Gasparilla Music Festival in Tampa, Florida on March 9, 2019. Credit: Angela Goldstein Photography \/ Gasparilla Music Festival<\/p>\nJaron Jammer playing Gasparilla Music Festival in Tampa, Florida on March 9, 2019. Credit: Angela Goldstein Photography \/ Gasparilla Music Festival<\/p>\n
In the daylight hours (and there are more of them for the next few months!), Jaron Jammer writes about musical instruments. By night, the Tampa songwriter, Jordan Esker collaborator, and Sorry Barb<\/a> drummer plays sublime, pristinely-recorded alt-folk that could\u2019ve soundtracked movies like \u201cGarden State\u201d or \u201cJuno.\u201d<\/p>\n This weekend, on his way out of town, he brings that vibe to a late night hang inside downtown Tampa\u2019s favorite dive.<\/p>\n Nephew, for its part, plays infinitely-catchy, jangly and melancholy pop-punk and rock. In a world where Live Nation is trying to pay a $280 million settlement to avoid being split up from Ticketmaster (while it\u2019s employees rag on us peons in their Slack chats<\/a>), this show is proof that there affordable good times can be had if you just follow a social media account run by a local who cares.<\/p>\n Madman Infatuation by Jaron Jammer<\/a><\/p>\n Pitch in to help make the Tampa Bay Journalism Project a success.<\/a><\/p>\n Subscribe to Creative Loafing newsletters.<\/a><\/p>\n Follow us:\u00a0Google News<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0NewsBreak<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Reddit<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Instagram<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Facebook\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0BlueSky<\/a><\/p>\n This article appears in Mar. 12 \u2013 18, 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n \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…\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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