brakence brings marroW to Jannus Live, his first Tampa Bay show since 2023

The Columbus-raised artist plays the 2,000-capacity Jannus Live on Saturday, March 13, 2027, early in the tour behind his first album in four years.

The last time brakence came through the Tampa Bay area, he played Crowbar, and his second album was not quite a year old. When he comes back in March, it will be to Jannus Live, a 2,000-capacity room, with his first new album in four years.

brakence plays Jannus Live in St. Petersburg on Saturday, March 13, 2027. Doors are at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 8. Tickets are on sale through AXS. The date was announced Oct. 27.

It is his first local show since Nov. 9, 2023, at Crowbar. Going from that room to the 2,000-capacity Jannus Live is about as clear a sign of growth as a touring artist gets, and the timing explains a lot of it.

brakence is the project of Randy Findell, a singer, songwriter and producer raised in the Columbus, Ohio, suburbs. He briefly attended Ohio State before putting out his 2020 debut, punk2, and broke through with his second album, hypochondriac, released on Columbia in December 2022. That record grew out of a rough stretch: about three years before it came out, Findell started living with a relentless headache that lasted for months, and the chronic pain fed straight into the songs. NPR described his sound at the time as "extremely online psychedelia," which still fits a sound that JamBase files somewhere between hip-hop and electronic music. One reviewer called the album a small masterpiece.

The big news since that Crowbar show landed just weeks ago. In October, Findell released marroW on Columbia, his first full-length project since hypochondriac. The St. Petersburg show is part of the North American tour supporting it, a run that reportedly opens March 4 in San Diego and stretches all the way to Aug. 21 in Los Angeles, with stops along the coasts, through the South and the Midwest, and up into Canada.

This crowd gets the new songs while they are still fresh for everyone on stage and off it.

Jannus Live lands early in that run, less than two weeks in, which means St. Pete hears marroW before the tour has worn it smooth. For local fans, that is the real hook. A lot of the people who were at Crowbar in 2023 have had hypochondriac on repeat for years. In March they get to hear how the new material sits next to it, in a bigger room, with more people singing along.

A few practical notes. Doors at 7 and the show at 8 on a Saturday leaves time for dinner before heading in. And with a 2,000-capacity room for an artist with a fresh album and more than three years since his last visit, it would not be smart to wait until the week of the show to buy.

Some artists come back to town on the same stage every time. brakence is coming back to a bigger one, with a new record in hand, and that is worth being there for.

Sources: Brakence releases 'marroW,' his first album in four years (The FADER) (thefader.com); Brakence Announces North American Tour for New Album Marrow (Archyde) (archyde.com); brakence hypochondriac interview (NPR) (npr.org); brakence (Qobuz artist bio) (qobuz.com); brakence – hypochondriac (Sputnikmusic) (sputnikmusic.com); brakence at Jannus Live (AXS) (axs.com); brakence at Jannus Live (JamBase) (jambase.com)