{"id":198362,"date":"2026-03-19T22:01:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/198362\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T22:01:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:01:07","slug":"viral-shoegaze-producer-flyingfish-drops-into-tampa-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/198362\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral shoegaze producer FlyingFish drops into Tampa this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"730\" height=\"730\" data-attachment-id=\"354946\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/flyingfishmbtouring\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/flyingfishMBTouring.jpeg?fit=730%2C730&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"730,730\" 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;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"flyingfishMBTouring\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;flyingfish&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/flyingfishMBTouring.jpeg?fit=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/flyingfishMBTouring.jpeg?fit=730%2C730&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773957667_950_flyingfishMBTouring.jpeg\" alt=\"A polaroid-style photo of the band flyingfish performing a live concert. A person with dark hair and glasses plays an electric guitar on a dark stage. In the foreground, the silhouettes of audience members hold up smartphones to record the performance against a backdrop of a simple white sheet and ambient stage lighting.\" class=\"wp-image-354946\"  \/>flyingfish Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/6361da65e7dbad2a44fa149d\/247c461a-2466-4a03-8bc6-c72b5a6e6e87\/flyingfish5.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MB Touring<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stardom feels closer than ever for bedroom musicians, especially in a world where TikTok can make someone infamous for a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Teenage producer <a href=\"https:\/\/realflyingfish.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Flyingfish<\/a> found out about that after the shoegaze song \u201cWonder If You Care\u201d (stylized all-lowercase) jumped off his DAW into virality three years ago (it\u2019s now featured in hundreds of thousands TikToks and has been streamed more than 91 million times on Spotify alone).<\/p>\n<p>Harsh Intention, a Virginia purveyor or harsher shoegaze, is among the openers along with Orlando emo trio Flowers For Emily.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/community.cltampa.com\/event\/flyingfish-21264617\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tickets to see FlyingFish play Crowbar in Ybor City on Sunday, March 22 are still available for $24.06.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/realflyingfish.bandcamp.com\/album\/isolation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">isolation by flyingfish<\/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>\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":"flyingfish Credit: MB Touring Stardom feels closer than ever for bedroom musicians, especially in a world where TikTok&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-198362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198362","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=198362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}