{"id":108257,"date":"2026-01-06T23:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T23:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/108257\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T23:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T23:13:10","slug":"early-2000s-indie-rock-hero-matt-pond-pa-plays-st-pete-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/108257\/","title":{"rendered":"Early-2000s indie-rock hero Matt Pond PA plays St. Pete this month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"606\" data-attachment-id=\"349847\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/mattpondpafacebook\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/mattpondpaFacebook.png?fit=1363%2C1059&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1363,1059\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"mattpondpaFacebook\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Matt Pond PA&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/mattpondpaFacebook.png?fit=300%2C233&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/mattpondpaFacebook.png?fit=780%2C606&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/mattpondpaFacebook.png\" alt=\"A profile shot of musician Matt Pond singing into a microphone. They have brown hair and a beard, wearing dark sunglasses and a blue t-shirt. A guitar strap is visible over their shoulder, and a small tattoo can be seen on their upper left arm against a plain light grey background.\" class=\"wp-image-349847\"  \/>Matt Pond PA Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=1330570471960241&amp;set=a.272843744399591\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mattpondpa \/ Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>St. Petersburg\u2019s beloved Craftsman House bungalow may be closed, but its spirit is already proliferating. Jeff Schorr, who ran the shop and venue for more than 20 years, is working on this gig headlined by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mattpondpa.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Pond PA<\/a>, a stalwart of the early-2000s indie-rock scene.<\/p>\n<p>Entering his 50s like the rest of us, Pond brings his nearly 20 albums (including the companion Natural Lines records released in 2023 and last year) to this <a href=\"https:\/\/community.cltampa.com\/location\/jack-kerouac-house-14514760\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Kerouac House<\/a> show alongside <a href=\"https:\/\/bathtubcig.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bathtub Cig<\/a> (stylized all-lowercase), the \u201cdepression pop\u201d project of Hilary James.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/community.cltampa.com\/event\/matt-pond-pa-21066965\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tickets to see Matt Pond PA and Bathtub Cig play Jack Kerouac House in St. Petersburg on Thursday, Jan. 15 are still available for $25.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mattpondpa.bandcamp.com\/album\/the-ballad-of-the-natural-lines-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Ballad of the Natural Lines by matt pond PA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/altnewsfoundation.org\/cl-tampa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pitch in to help make the Tampa Bay Journalism Project a success.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/tampa\/NewsletterSignup\/Page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to Creative Loafing newsletters.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAiECLjru3gB6BLYKOKFLfkVZsqFAgKIhAi467t4AegS2CjihS35FWb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google News<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbreak.com\/@c\/1599764?s=01\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NewsBreak<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/CreativeLoafingTampa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cltampabay\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cltampabay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/cltampabay.bsky.social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BlueSky<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"collection-link has-small-font-size\">This article appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/collections\/jan-01-07-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jan. 01 \u2013 07, 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead his 2016 intro letter\u00a0and disclosures from 2022 and 2021.\u00a0Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/author\/rroa\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Ray Roa\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Pond PA Credit: mattpondpa \/ Facebook St. Petersburg\u2019s beloved Craftsman House bungalow may be closed, but its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[30063,7565,55460,202,204,203,199,201,200,1865],"class_list":["post-108257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-jack-kerouac-house","tag-live-music-in-st-petersburg","tag-matt-pond-pa","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa-bay-concerts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}