{"id":8665,"date":"2025-10-17T18:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/8665\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T18:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:42:07","slug":"savage-beats-annual-pre-fest-brings-the-worlds-best-punk-rock-to-tampa-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/8665\/","title":{"rendered":"Savage Beat’s annual Pre-Fest brings the world’s best punk-rock to Tampa this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AChewy Hemphill outside Crowbar in Ybor City, Florida on Oct. 6, 2025. Credit: Dave Decker \/ Creative Loafing Tampa Bay<\/p>\n

Chewy Hemphill would be enshrined in the Tampa Bay punk-rock hall of fame if there was one. The Bay area promoter and solid human is a mainstay outside clubs where he\u2019s ready to hand you a flyer detailing the next show he\u2019s booked for his company Savage Beat.<\/p>\n

One of those gigs is the nearly decade-old Pre-Fest, which has outlasted all other Pre-Fests that came before and after it.<\/p>\n

Once again, Hemphill has assembled not just homegrown acts headed to Gainesville, but bands from across the U.S. (Tiltwheel, Amusement) and globe (Toodles & The Hectic Pity, Sunliner) for a one-night-only, all-ages get together ahead of this month\u2019s bacchanal in Gainesville. <\/p>\n

Deviant Libation<\/a>, Ybor Heights\u2019 church of inclusive punk-rock and heavenly beer, is the perfect venue for this, and it\u2019ll be wild to see no-ring wrestling go down at the space, too.<\/p>\n

Night two happens a short drive away at Magnanimous Brewing<\/a> in Seminole Heights.<\/p>\n

Tickets to Tampa Bay Pre-Fest 9 happening at Deviant Libation at Magnanimous Brewing, in Tampa on Wednesday-Thursday, Oct. 22-23 are still available and start at $26.50<\/a><\/p>\n

This article appears in Oct. 16 \u2013 22, 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\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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