{"id":408728,"date":"2026-09-23T23:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T23:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/408728\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T23:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T23:22:10","slug":"oakland-hardcore-band-brings-fire-is-beautiful-lp-to-tampa-concert-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/408728\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland hardcore band brings &#8216;Fire Is Beautiful&#8217; LP to Tampa concert on Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"586\" data-attachment-id=\"368345\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/starsdontmeananything-ig-crop\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/starsdontmeananything-IG-crop-scaled.png?fit=2560%2C1923&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1923\" 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;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"starsdontmeananything-IG-crop\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;starsdontmeananything&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/starsdontmeananything-IG-crop-scaled.png?fit=780%2C586&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/starsdontmeananything-IG-crop.png\" alt=\"An outdoor group portrait photograph showing the band starsdontmeananything posing along the edge of a paved road against a desert landscape. Four band members stand and crouch outdoors under a clear blue sky with rocky hills and sparse green trees in the background. On the far left, a band member with long brown hair stands wearing a white t-shirt, brown trousers, and white sneakers. To their right, a band member with visible arm tattoos stands wearing a dark sleeveless graphic shirt, long dark shorts, and dark boots. Crouched in the middle, a third member wearing a pink cap, dark t-shirt, and light shorts looks toward the camera. On the far right, a fourth member with curly hair stands in profile wearing a dark shirt and pink shorts, touching their hair under bright daylight.\" class=\"wp-image-368345\"  \/>starsdontmeananything Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DdcaDgGCYx4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">starsdontmeananything \/ Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Naturally, hardcore bands are on every corner of Bandcamp, but the 2025 outing from Starsdontmeananything stands out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the opening (\u201cControlled Burn\u201d) to the in between (\u201cKnowing How To Leave,\u201d \u201cStainless Steel,\u201d the title track), the Oakland outfit works quiet, experimental moments into Fire Is Beautiful, a record that\u2019s chock full of tough riffs and devastating breakdowns (\u201cPulling Teeth\u201d) for fans of Funeral Diner and Pageninetynine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSoul crushing metalcore\u201d band Reap What You Sow opens alongside St. Pete n\u00fc-core outfit Indebted, and post-hardcore quartet Luciidea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/community.cltampa.com\/event\/montgomery-drive-and-fmam-events-present-starsdontmeananything-with-reap-what-you-sow-indebted-and-luciidea-21874469\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/community.cltampa.com\/event\/montgomery-drive-and-fmam-events-present-starsdontmeananything-with-reap-what-you-sow-indebted-and-luciidea-21874469\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tickets to see Starsdontmeananything, Reap What You Sow, Indebted, and Luciidea at Deviant Libation in Tampa on Tuesday, Sept. 29 are still available and start at $13.40.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/starsdontmeananything.bandcamp.com\/album\/fire-is-beautiful\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fire Is Beautiful by starsdontmeananything<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><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 wp-block-paragraph\"><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\/sept-24-30-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sept. 24 \u2013 30, 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":"starsdontmeananything Credit: starsdontmeananything \/ Instagram Naturally, hardcore bands are on every corner of Bandcamp, but the 2025 outing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[8839,1864,135,1865,137,136],"class_list":["post-408728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-deviant-libation","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\/408728","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=408728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}