{"id":43717,"date":"2025-11-12T13:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/43717\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T13:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T13:26:11","slug":"esos-besos-houston-indie-rock-trio-vortxz-plays-no-cover-st-pete-concert-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/43717\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Esos Besos&#8217; Houston indie-rock trio Vortxz plays no-cover St. Pete concert this weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"489\" data-attachment-id=\"347325\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/music-2\/esos-besos-houston-indie-rock-trio-vortxz-plays-no-cover-st-pete-concert-this-weekend\/attachment\/vortxzfacebook\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/VortxZFacebook.jpg?fit=2048%2C1284&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1284\" 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=\"VortxZFacebook\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Vortxz&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/VortxZFacebook.jpg?fit=300%2C188&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/VortxZFacebook.jpg?fit=780%2C489&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/VortxZFacebook.jpg\" alt=\"Three young men wearing matching light gray suits stand formally in a lush outdoor garden, surrounded by dense green foliage, spiky desert plants, and yellow wildflowers.\" class=\"wp-image-347325\"  \/>Vortxz Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=786806867259082&amp;set=a.155036890436086\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">VortxZ \/ Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last month, the Recording Academy (aka the folks behind the Grammy awards) counted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vortxz.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vortxz<\/a> among its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grammy.com\/news\/rising-latin-artists-to-know-rainao-any-gabrielly-robi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u201c6 Rising Latin Stars To Know Now.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>FFO of The Strokes, the Houston trio was hailed for its \u201cmix of new-wave indie, Rock en Espa\u00f1ol, and alternative rock,\u201d and a dreamy track, \u201cEsos Besos.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Emblematic of the dynamic nature of Texas\u2019 indie music scene, this no cover show is a chance to see Vortxz in a tiny venue, <a href=\"https:\/\/community.cltampa.com\/location\/the-bends-12505442\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Bends<\/a>, alongside of of Tampa\u2019s most energetic pop-punk outfits, Pet Lizard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/community.cltampa.com\/event\/vortxz-20924962\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">There\u2019s no cover to see Vortxz play The Bends in St. Petersburg on Saturday, Nov. 15. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762953971_949_hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" nopin=\"nopin\"\/><\/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\/nov-6-12-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nov. 6 \u2013 12, 2025<\/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":"Vortxz Credit: VortxZ \/ Facebook Last month, the Recording Academy (aka the folks behind the Grammy awards) counted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7565,202,204,203,199,201,200,1865,28707,28708],"class_list":["post-43717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-live-music-in-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa-bay-concerts","tag-the-bends","tag-vortxz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43717","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=43717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}