Hotel Fiction w/Trash Panda/Mak After a few post-college-graduation gigs opening for The Brook and the Bluff and Beach Fossils, Jade Long and Jessica Thompson dropped Soft Focus, their first album as a duo called Hotel Fiction. Crushed career dreams and staying afloat in life are just two topics on the record of soft indie-rock, which should get plenty of play at the band’s first Ybor City gig.—Josh Bradley