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Ever since Chocolate Industries pulled out of town a year or so ago we’ve been jonesing for a new sonic substance. Luckily local DJ turned entrepreneur Greg Chin, a.k.a. Stryke, has been happy to oblige with his ambitious new Substance Recordings. In addition to his own delicately textured take on…

New York City had Simon and Garfunkel, so it’s only fitting that Miami’s most dynamic songwriting duo should have come together in a tribute to our city. Before September 11 Elsten Torres and Juan Carlos Perez Soto had been writing songs separately for years. They had even been writing songs…

Who knew Desi Arnaz would come back as a Brit-pop-loving hipster with a penchant for vintage clothes? Only a kid who grew up in Miami could bring such left-field treatment to classics “Babalú” and “Como Fue.” Moreno may have a face that teenyboppers love, but his voice is for the…

Love, like everything else, has imitations, but Dean Fields is the real deal. We just hope we can keep him here, at least for a little while. The curly-topped Virginian has stopped off in Miami for a little booklearnin’, but his heart is in his music and it shows. Fields…

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to these three. R-E-S-P-E-C-T so rare for women in the compas industry. Saima, sisters Sabine, Yves, and Martine Francoeur, got tired of serving as back-up singers to a slew of male stars, so they struck out in search of their own spotlight. You’ll still…

DJs Oscar G (Space) and Ralph Falcon (Billboardlive) first hit the scene in 1997 with the club classic “Fired Up.” In 1999 they avoided the sophomore slump by releasing “Body,” a smash hit that swept across dance floors worldwide. Now the duo, along with singer Tamara, have scored again with…

Frankly, Jake ain’t that little, but given the scarcity of old-fashioned bass-slappin’ rock and roll outfits in these parts, we’re not going to nit-pick. And when this slickly coifed, tattooed, and sideburned band gets a good head of steam going, there’s no time for semantics; best to just grab your…

For too long, rap in Miami was synonymous in the nation-at-large’s mind with Luke’s 2 Live Crew. And given that ol’ Uncle Luke has been little more than an embarrassing punch line for nigh on a decade now, the ascension of Trick Daddy’s gleaming gold smile to MTV is more…

The Caribbean, claims Cuban writer Antonio Benitez-Rojo, is a meta-archipelago: a giant sponge spiraling out from the Caribbean Sea to Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, the Americas, the universe, endlessly repeating. The Caribbean, in short, is the rhythmic center of the world. And so the Afro-Polyphonic World Orchestra, an…

For the purist, Miami has a wealth of fine jazz musicians who know their way around an Ellington composition or conserve the stylistic touches of Dizzy, Miles, or Coltrane. Jesse Jones, Jr., Melton Mustafa, Randy Gerber, and Paquito Hechavarria are just a few of the virtuosos who keep the flame…

Oh, happy dilemma. More than one indie night to choose from. More than two! More than three! This past year has been a great one for the local indie pop scene, with long-brewing enthusiasm finally coming to a boil. But savvy disc-curating sets PopLife above the rest, mixing deep, dark…

You left/and since you left, Castro lost/Miami, no/we hope you’ll stay/(Making beautiful salsa/Showing us how it’s done)/You left/and since you left CANF is lost/what does it mean?/we hope you’ll stay/And now you are the king/of the Hialeah festival in the spring/And now you are the king/of the Hialeah festival in…

There isn’t much competition for this category in a majority Latin county, but that’s not Volumen Cero’s fault. It’s been doing all it can to give us a good name. These hard-working boys, with their emo-gothy-hard-rock-en-español (except-often-in-English) sound, have been playing seriously, recording seriously, touring seriously, showing up on time…

One look at Bozo Porno Circus and you instantly know they’re not from around here — no matter where here may be. “We were eating at Wendy’s and I was talking on my phone, looking out the window. I turned around and [saw that] everybody in line wasn’t facing the…

What pressure? On the eve of Timo Maas’s 27-gig, 6-week North American tour to promote Loud (Kinetic), his debut album as an artist, the jovial Hanover, Germany, native is holed up in a San Francisco hotel watching dark clouds and rain spray the Bay area. But the dank atmosphere doesn’t…

Jeff Rollason, lead singer and guitarist of Miami’s experimental rock outfit the Curious Hair, is not at all interested in the music industry. “That’s not what I think about every day,” the 29-year-old professes before a late-night performance on the patio of a Coral Gables bookstore. Behind his small black-framed…

Growing up in Puerto Rico’s projects, or caseríos, may be no different than in any other hood on the U.S. mainland. Bullets, drugs, and a rap sheet are part of everyday life. But so is music, a legit way for many a street philosopher to escape the surrounding crude reality…

First-time director Michelle Lindenberger enjoys the wild. She was raised near the mountains of Arizona, did social work with delinquent kids, and led expeditions through the Florida river systems of Everglades National Park. But it was the sonic-and-strobe jungle of South Beach that propelled her to filmmaking. “I went to…

here’s a story of a jazz saxophone player, one of the great avant-garde tenors, who was approached after a concert in Europe a few years back by a fan wanting an autograph. The fan handed him two CDs recorded by the sax player’s son, Joshua Redman, and asked him to…