Eric Snider
Eric Snider is the dean of Bay area music critics. He started in the early 1980s as one of the founding members of Music magazine, a free bi-monthly. He was the pop music critic for the then-St. Petersburg Times from ‘87-’93. Snider was the music critic, arts editor and senior editor of Weekly Planet/Creative Loafing from 1996-2009. Over the years, he has written for a variety of national publications.
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Something In The Oven
Local potters have warmed to St. Pete Clay
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Musical Mesh
Todd Rundgren and Joe Jackson share more than just attitude
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A Life In Pictures
On the eve of his first career retrospective, photographer Bud Lee looks back at some of his favorite shots.
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Cali Combo
San Francisco guitarist Roy Rogers melds traditional and modern blues
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Baldhead Beautiful
Talking with Toots Hibbert, reggae’s Ray Charles
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Pinellas St. Petersburg / Historic Kenwood
Cake-baking neighbors, Grand Central shopping, the Gay-borhood ?
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Top of the Pops
Keith Lockhart, Boston’s class act.
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Oh, Brothers
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No Bull
Veteran dobro player Jerry Douglas slides into a tour with Alison Krauss.
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That’s So Gay
An Enquirer headline raises hackles at a Valrico Publix.
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Enter Galactic
The N’awlins road-dogs embrace the jam-band label and go instrumental.
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Game Boy
The trash-talking, hard-living, middle-aged video-game champion of the world.
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The Top Four
A quartet of discs stands out in a less than stellar year.