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  <title>Creative Loafing Tampa: Eric Snider</title>
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    <title>What&amp;#39;s next for Jannus Landing?</title>
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        The life, death and rebirth of a beloved concert venue....
       
      
        By Eric Snider
      
      
      &quot;This didn&#39;t have to happen,&quot; says Rob Douglas, his 6-foot-4 frame slouched on a sofa in his south St. Pete condo, his raspy voice weary and tinged with bitterness. He&#39;s a linchpin of the St. Petersburg concert scene, his tenure as a promoter, venue operator and production manager dating back to the early &#39;80s, when shows were put on by enterprising locals rather than megacorporations. He spent 25 years working at Jannus Landing, one of the Bay area&#39;s most beloved
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    <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Album Review: The Stone Roses, The Stone Roses (20th Anniversary Edition)</title>
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        By Eric Snider
      
      
      In 2006, writers for the English music magazine NME voted 1989&rsquo;s The Stone Roses the &ldquo;greatest British album of all time.&rdquo; I would not go that far.But I will assert this: Anyone who aspires to a rock music collection considered definitive should make unequivocally sure that the Manchester, England band&rsquo;s debut album is part of it. In 1989 I was well ensconced as a full-time pop music critic, so it&rsquo;s with a twinge of embarrassment that I rave about an
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    <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>40th anniversary of Woodstock brings new CD releases</title>
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        Complete concert sets by Sly, Janis, Santana, Airplane and Winter....
       
      
        By Eric Snider
      
      
      Uh-oh, the 40th anniversary of Woodstock is about a month and a half away. Did you remember? If not, it&#39;s probably due to the distinct lack of buzz, seeing as there is no official concert scheduled, although boosters keep adding &quot;as yet&quot; in hopes that original co-producer Michael Lang will manage to put together a show in New York&#39;s Prospect Park. A handful of mostly lame events are planned for different parts of the country, and a tour called Heroes
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    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Review: Maxwell&amp;#39;s, BLACKsummers&amp;#39;night</title>
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        By Eric Snider
      
      
      It was not all that long ago that a self-imposed eight-year hiatus by an R&amp;B singer was tantamount to quitting the game. Labels wouldn&rsquo;t have it; fans would forget.Singer Maxwell&rsquo;s retreat for most of the decade into &ldquo;pedestrian life&rdquo; has done nothing to hurt his career. BLACKSummer&rsquo;snight, his first release since 2001&rsquo;s Now just entered the Billboard 200 chart at No. 1 with sales of 316,000. Maxwell&rsquo;s re-arrival happens at a precipitous time, amid a listless modern soul scene where
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    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Jacksonville&amp;#39;s Sunbears! make music that lives up to their name</title>
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        By Eric Snider
      
      
      Two years ago, Jonathan Berlin was in a bad place. He was the lead singer and songwriter for a band called Bernard that had a distribution deal through East/West, a division of Warner Bros. The trio, whose drummer was his longtime collaborator and best friend Jared Bowser, had played 300 shows on tour. So what exactly was the problem, you might wonder? &quot;With Bernard, we worked our asses off to make it happen,&quot; Berlin, 25, says in a phone interview.
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    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Review: Tom Morello &amp;amp; Boots Riley, Street Sweeper Social Club</title>
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        By Eric Snider
      
      
      It was fated that one day they&rsquo;d collaborate. Audioslave (and former Rage Against the Machine) guitarist Tom Morello and Boots Riley, rapper for the Coup, are two of the most stridently radical musicians to ever plug in. Get &rsquo;em together and you get Street Sweeper Social Club, 11 songs and nearly 40 minutes of unremitting agitprop set to thunder beats and monster guitar riffs.Every song rails against something: bosses, politicians, capitalism, materialism, the System. Virtually every song advocates the violent
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    <title>Review: Wilco, Wilco</title>
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      Jeff Tweedy doesn&rsquo;t sound any happier. I&rsquo;ve always found the Wilco leader&rsquo;s apparent discomfort in his own skin to be one of the reasons the band was capable of compelling music (although by no means always).On &ldquo;Solitaire,&rdquo; one of the many somber, introspective tunes on Wilco&rsquo;s self-titled seventh studio album, Tweedy sings in his trademark laconic style, &ldquo;Once I thought without a doubt/ I had it all figured out/ The universe with hands unseen/ I was cold as gasoline/ Took
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    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Review: Mos Def, The Ecstatic</title>
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        By Eric Snider
      
      
      Hip-hop seems adrift, with no particular faction dominating the pop psyche (or the charts). Bling-rap isn&rsquo;t resonating as much lately, these being trying times and all. The current landscape is perfect for a multi-facted, thinking artist such as Mos Def, whose fourth studio album, The Ecstatic, continues his impressive body of musical work. The 35-year-old Brooklyn native &mdash; who has, perhaps more than any other rapper, made a mark in film, TV and theater &mdash; has never had much use
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    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Interview with Virgina rockers Pontiak</title>
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        The three brothers in Pontiak log heavy miles, play heavy music....
       
      
        By Eric Snider
      
      
      Imagine you&#39;re one of three brothers four years apart who ride around the country in a van that&#39;s tricked out with a sleeping loft. Most nights you stay at campgrounds and cook out. You pull the van over on a whim for a hike or to check out whatever catches your attention, be it the Grand Canyon or a roadside taco stand. Now imagine that most nights you get to turn your instruments up real loud and play your own
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    <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>With owner Jack Bodziak in tax trouble, what will happen Jannus Landing?</title>
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        Insiders consider the fate of St. Pete's Jannus Landing...
       
      
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      A cloud hangs over Jannus Landing. The man who runs the concert courtyard, Jack Bodziak, was arrested May 27 on charges that he failed to pay to the state more than $200,000 in sales tax he collected from customers at the site. Three concerts have been pulled from the Jannus Landing docket: The Hold Steady, Gogol Bordello and Taking Back Sunday. The question on everyone&#39;s mind: What will become of St. Petersburg beloved concert venue? Very few people want to
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    <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Galactic&amp;#39;s Stanton Moore and the art of New Orleans drumming</title>
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      He was the bespectacled white kid from the suburbs trying to sit in with musical legends in New Orleans. But instead of getting the cold shoulder, drummer Stanton Moore was welcomed on the bandstand by any number of prominent players. And the crowd dug him, too. &quot;To tell you the truth, when I was coming up and they&#39;d let me sit in, the regulars at the bar would be, &#39;Listen to the white kid,&#39;&quot; Moore says by cell phone on
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    <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Essential Album: Tito Puente&amp;#39;s Dance Mania</title>
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      Mainstream America&rsquo;s embracement of Latin music really took hold in the latter half of the 1950s with the &ldquo;mambo craze.&rdquo; Despite its faddish overtones and eventual disintegration into novelty (&rdquo;Mambo Italiano&rdquo;), this particular craze inspired some terrific music, none better than Tito Puente&rsquo;s Dance Mania, which in 2000 was named one of the 25 &ldquo;most significant albums&rdquo; of the 20th century by the New York Times. Puente, a native New Yorker of Puerto Rican heritage, was a brilliant percussionist (especially
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    <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Why would anybody go to Florida beaches in July?</title>
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        Yes, people do vacation on the Gulf beaches in the summer....
       
      
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      Anyone who has endured Tampa Bay&#39;s withering six-month summers has probably asked themselves: Why in the hell would anyone voluntarily come to the Gulf beaches in mid-July, or, perish the thought, August, or even crazier, September? Why would they schedule a vacation, pay hotel and restaurant bills, to frolic around in an inferno? As it turns out, a lot of those wackos walking the beach in the summer are our wackos -- or at least they come from not too
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    <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>The highlights of the summer concert season</title>
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        By Leilani Polk
      
      
      Dozens and dozens of acts will make it onto Tampa Bay area concert stages this summer. Here&#39;s our best bets, in a wide range of genres: Stanton Moore The bespectacled founder of NOLA funk purveyors Galactic is widely regarded as one of the best drummers currently drawing air. This show has him in a trio setting with a guitarist and keyboardist. The small ensemble allows room for Moore to strut his Crescent City-honed skills. Expect expansive jamming and finely honed
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    <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Uganda&amp;#39;s Kinobe makes music that transcends national boundaries</title>
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      As elusive as the concept of African unity may be, Kinobe Herbert is doing his part to realize it. The 25-year-old singer/multi-instrumentalist from Uganda rejects the fragmentation of the continent&#39;s often tradition-bound musical landscape, and instead actively seeks to incorporate influences and instruments from throughout Africa and beyond. &quot;Most people in Uganda know more about America than even countries next door to them in Africa,&quot; Kinobe (pronounced Chi-no-BAY) says by phone from a tour stop in North Carolina. &quot;It&#39;s because
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    <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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