Prince Daddy & The Hyena bring 'Hotwire Trip Switch' to The Wooly on Tuesday, Nov. 17

The band's fourth album gets a Tuesday-night run-through in Gainesville at a 400-capacity room, $33.53 at the door of the week.

A Tuesday night in mid-November, a 400-person room, and a band whose new album is called *Hotwire Trip Switch*. That's the setup for Nov. 17 at The Wooly, and in a punk town like Gainesville it's a good one.

Prince Daddy & The Hyena play The Wooly on Tuesday, Nov. 17, starting at 7 p.m. Tickets are $33.53 through Ticketmaster. The Wooly holds 400, small enough that the back of the room is still part of the show.

The reason for the trip is *Hotwire Trip Switch*, the band's fourth album. It came out April 17 on Counter Intuitive Records, the New England emo label the band returned to for this one. They announced it early this year with the single "Big-Box Store Heart." Kerrang! covered the rollout with the new song and its video. Seven months on, the record has had time to settle in with fans, and a club tour is where those songs either earn their place in the set or don't.

This year has taken the band well beyond its usual circuit. In July, Prince Daddy & The Hyena and Macseal went to Australia for a co-headline tour, with Suzi as national support. Stops included The Brightside in Brisbane and the Hamilton Station Hotel in Newcastle, the band's first run there, promoted by Destroy All Lines. The fall US run came after, and it has crossed the country in the weeks before Gainesville: Des Moines on Oct. 27, Omaha the next night, Manhattan on Oct. 30, then a West Coast and desert swing through San Diego on Nov. 5, Orange County on Nov. 6 and Tucson on Nov. 8.

By the time the van reaches north Florida, this is a band in the last stretch of a long year on the road. The Wooly's genres line up with the band's — punk, indie and rock — and a room this size is where that kind of music has always made the most sense. Nobody is watching from a balcony. You are in it.

What to know before you go: the show is listed at 7 p.m., early for a Tuesday, so if you're coming from work or class, plan for it. The ticket link above goes through TicketWeb, and at $33.53 the price is printed right on the listing, with no guessing about tiers. Four hundred tickets in a college town for a band with a new record means the walk-up line is not a sure thing.

If you have been spinning "Big-Box Store Heart" since the spring, this is your night to hear it loud. If you haven't, put the album on before the 17th. Then go downtown on a Tuesday and see for yourself why a band four albums in still sells out rooms like this one.

Sources: Stereogum: Prince Daddy & The Hyena announce new album Hotwire Trip Switch, hear 'Big-Box Store Heart' (stereogum.com); Kerrang!: Prince Daddy & The Hyena announce new album, stream new song and video (kerrang.com); Destroy All Lines: Prince Daddy & The Hyena + Macseal (destroyalllines.com); The Note: Prince Daddy & The Hyena and Macseal announce joint Australian tour 2026 (thenote.com.au); 100% Rock: Prince Daddy & The Hyena / Macseal add Suzi as national support (100percentrock.com); Ticketmaster/TicketWeb – Prince Daddy & The Hyena at The Wooly (ticketmaster.evyy.net); JamBase – Prince Daddy & The Hyena at The Wooly (jambase.com)