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A band with teeth
By SEAN DALY
Published September 14, 2006
The lumbering mastodon drums! The overwrought keyboards! The sludgy head-thrashing guitar chug! Man, do I love Wolfmother, a barely legal Australian trio made up of fuzzy young men who have no use for the last 30 years of popular music. Wolfmother's self-titled debut - a ridiculously earnest and shaggy homage to Led Zep and Deep Purple and anyone who ever believed in unicorns and sea serpents - was released in May, but it's still hanging tough as my most entertaining album of the year. (If you're wondering, Gnarls Barkley is up there, too.) The throwback crew is led by unlikely new heartthrob Andrew Stockdale, a singer-guitarist who looks like a Jim Henson creation and worships at the altar of Robert Plant. The buzz is that Wolfmother is the ultimate live band. If it's true, Saturday's show at Jannus Landing could very well be one we'll talk about for years. Wolfmother, with the Mess Hall, performs at 8 p.m. Saturday at Jannus Landing, 16 Second St. N, St. Petersburg. $15 advance, $18 day of show. (727) 896-2276. - SEAN DALY, Times pop music critic
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