Better Than Ezra, which plays Jannus Live in St. Petersburg, Florida on November 30, 2018. Credit: Greg Miles

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Rock and roll may not be the direct cure for pediatric cancer, but this benefit concert featuring late-’90s New Orleans alt-rock act Better Than Ezra wants to put a dent in the disease. Rocks the Cure believes that music therapy can help patients reduce some of the symptoms associated with cancer treatments, including pain, anxiety, mood disturbance and depression. Anything that helps kids cope with the difficulties of hospitalization sounds good to us.

Rocks the Cure w/Better Than Ezra/The Outpatients. Fri. Nov. 30, 6 p.m. $40. Jannus Live, 400 1st. Ave. N., St. Petersburg. jannuslive.com.

This article appears in Nov 29 – Dec 6, 2018.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...