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O Rappa at Fillmore Miami Beach August 5

O Rappa's Brazilian Reggae, Funk, Rock, and Dub at Fillmore Miami Beach on August 5

In 1980, Bob Marley traveled to Brazil on a scouting mission with Island Records' Chris Blackwell and the Wailers' Junior Marvin, in preparation of a world tour. A year later, he was dead. But even though Marley never got to play Rio or São Paulo, the reggae man's musical influence had a serious ... More >>

Miami Rum Renaissance Festival: Ten New Rums You Haven't Tried Yet

View photos from Miami Rum Renaissance Festival 2012 at Deauville Beach Resort here.The Miami Rum Renaissance Festival at the Deauville Resort concluded last evening with a 6:45 p.m. "last call", prompting event goers to rush to their favorite rum booth for one last mojito or shot of the elixir favo ... More >>

Uncle Luke loves Lady Gaga

I Love Lady Gaga

​Uncle Luke, the man whose booty-shaking madness once made the U.S. Supreme Court stand up for free speech, gets as nasty as he wants to be for Miami New Times. This week, Luke expounds on the greatness of Lady Gaga.In this age of digital media, when you can download any new album or movie for fre ... More >>

Toots and the Maytals at Bayside Rocks Festival November 20

Annie Mac Talks Eclectic Music Tastes and Why All DJs Should Dance

​Earlier this week we previewed Annie Mac's upcoming Thursday gig at the Electric Pickle and there is definitely no shortage of buzz and anticipation for this show building up among Miami's dance music cognoscenti. The Irish-born BBC Radio 1 host specializes in a wildly energetic blend of styles ... More >>

Open-Source Party Peeps

Intercontinental Hotel West Miami's Chef Darren Lee's Experimental Locally Sourced Menu

If locally sourced agricultural products don't immediately come to mind when you hear Intercontinental Hotel West Miami it's no surprise to Executive Chef Darren Lee. That's why he's working on an experimental menu to integrate locally grown products into the Doral hotel's repertoire.The hotel rece ... More >>

Best Dance-Floor Anthems of 2008

The year's finest tracks, both mixed and unmixed.

Top Dance Albums of 2008

Any knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dr ... More >>

CD Review: The Rocket Summer

Marc Broussard's Soul Revue

SET LIST

Humble Lion and Empress Surrender

Are You Experienced?

This year age triumphed over youth in world music

Raw and Uncooked

King Sunny Ade's early-Eighties "crossover" recordings still retain their power

Island Man

Chris Blackwell moves into the digi-Web-world-global-video age

City Slackers

Poverty, dancehall, and sound systems in modern-day Kingston, Jamaica

Papa Bear

Don't worry, kid; reggae legend Freddie McGregor's gonna make it all better

Injected

Burn It Black "Universal"

Strange Trip It's Been

All the rockin' history of Miami you'll ever need to know

Rare Riddims

Today's reggae is a dirty business. Black Uhuru's Duckie Simpson rolls up his sleeves.

Give a Hoot!

The melodica may be a plastic flute, but it's not just kid stuff

Meet the Prosthetic Cubans

Marc Ribot y los Cubanos Postizos

Have Horn, Will Travel

Hold on, Roomful of Blues is comin'

Designing Craig

Craig Robins has built a reputation as the good developer. Just ask him.

You Can Call Him Himmy

Rotations

Skankin' Out Racism

The Outsiders

Dub and Dumber

Calendar for the week

Reverb

Reverb

Shadowboxing

Ride of a Lifetime

Rotations

Program Notes 7

Kings & Queens of Marlin Gardens

Africa Fete gets on the global good foot

Rest in Pieces

The shattered dreams and blurred memories of Washington Square

Program Notes 12

Swelter

Swelter

Welcome to the Terrors' Dome

Rolling Stone and the British music press rush to Miami for the Next Big Thing. Holy mackerel!

Let's Get Together and Deal All Right

After six years of litigation and millions of dollars in legal fees, one strand of Bob Marley's tangled estate has been sorted out. Almost.

Last Night a DJ Saved South Beach

A week in the nightlife of spin doctor Carlos Menendez

Perry and Thrust

At Blue Note the old music world's en garde for exploring

Swelter

Swelter

Making Tracks