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• CONCERTS

  Rumour has it Fleetwood Mac's in town

  Get Craig Martin or Leslea Keurvorst talking about pop music and the two self-professed ''geeks'' spin happily on like a 33 1/3-rpm record on 45, tossing out trivia on life-altering albums with glee.

• CONCERTS

  Poison promises nothin' but a good time

  Just as disco helped define the swinging '70s, hair metal provided the perfect soundtrack to '80s excess. Both musical genres have been widely reviled and ridiculed, and both seemingly will never die: Disco still fuels decadent theme nights at the hippest clubs across the country, and hair metal bands are still a major guilty pleasure for rock fans, as evidenced by the success of Motley Crue's new album Saints of Los Angeles and recent packed arena shows.

• MOVIES

  Films keep ABBA hits going on and on and on

  Like the smash Broadway musical that spawned it, Mamma Mia! would not exist without ABBA. The movie is simply an excuse for the famous likes of Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Christine Baranski and Julie Walters to run around like lunatics on a beautiful Greek island, stopping every few minutes to belt out another classic ABBA ditty such as Dancing Queen or Take a Chance on Me.

• A new beat: Carcasses moves Cuban music forward

  Cuban pianist/composer/bandleader Roberto Carcasses wants to move Cuban music forward, past son tradition and timba formula. ''We want to do a musical investigation, really create something new,'' he says, sitting in a friend's Miami Beach apartment, where he's been staying while visiting here from Havana. ``It's to mess with your head. We're really trying to do something different. And since Cuba isn't really part of the commercial market, that leaves us free to investigate.''

• 'Miami Libre': Original Miami production captures the Cuban immigrant life

  he brightly lit rehearsal studio at Miami's Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts is a long way from a Havana carnival, but the twisting Cuban dancers shaking the room with sweat-inducing batidora (the supersonic Cuban hip vibration) and screams of agua! and asesina! are doing their best to bring one to life.

• BOOK REVIEW

  Madonna's brother gives it 2 her, all right

  LIFE WITH MY SISTER MADONNA. Christopher Ciccone and Wendy Leigh. Simon Spotlight Entertainment. 342 pages. $26. Life With My Sister Madonna, Christopher Ciccone's whiny memoir about growing up in the shadow of his world-famous, world-class neurotic older sister, accomplishes something nothing else written about the singer has managed to do: It makes you feel a little sorry for her.

• MUSIC

  The Who: What? When? Where? Why?

  Roger Daltrey is smacking his head. He's heard enough about how Pete Townshend was writing songs for a fresh album from the two surviving members of The Who. Or maybe Townshend is writing for another band. Or he isn't writing at all.

• CELEBRITY Q&A

  Take a spin with this DJ to the stars

  DJ AM (Adam Goldstein), Hollywood's A-list spinner, became popular for his mash-ups of '80s and '90s classics with current hits at the hottest nightclubs. But it wasn't until DJ AM played at singer Melissa Etheridge's 40th birthday party in 2001 that he exploded onto the scene as the DJ of choice for private parties hosted by Hollywood's elite. (We're talking Ben Stiller's wedding, Madonna's birthday party, Steven Spielberg's son's Bar Mitzvah . . .) He partnered with drummer Travis Barker of Blink...

• Return to Forever reunion tour

  Here's a chance to catch the reunion tour of influential '70s jazz-rock fusion act Return to Forever at Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater at 8 p.m. July 30. The band includes bassist Stanley Clarke and drummer Lenny White, with keyboardist Chick Corea and guitarist Al Di Meola. Tickets are $93.50, $78.50, $58.50 and $48.50; Ticketmaster.com.

• Backstage Pass | 3 Doors Down

  3 Doors Down -- dubbed 'the thoroughly modern American band' by Billboard magazine -- heads for West Palm Beach's Cruzan Amphitheatre Sept. 25, along with Hinder, Finger Eleven and American Bang. You'll hear 3 Doors Down's massive hit Kryptonite, plus plenty from the self-titled new album including the single It's Not My Time, which the band performed before the Home Run Derby Monday night at Yankee Stadium as part of All-Star Week.

• In Stores Tuesday | New music

  Due in stores Tuesday: Black Kids, Partie Traumatic (Columbia Records). Jacksonville indie-pop band. Candlebox, Into the Sun (Silent Majority).

• Rain doesn't dampen crowds at rock show

  Overcast skies and sporadic showers were no match for resilient punk-rock fans Saturday at downtown Miami's Bicentennial Park, where the Vans Warped Tour made its annual stop.

• ARTS BRIEFS

  Poe's cottage to be renovated

  Edgar Allan Poe lived his last years and wrote such classics as Annabel Lee and The Bells in a cottage in the Bronx. Long a tourist attraction, the small five-room building will soon give fans an even better sense of Poe's final years with a planned renovation and the construction of a visitors center.

• Juan Luis' La Travesia tour a reason to celebrate the journey

  Dominican Juan Luis Guerra has been a star for almost 20 years. But as suggested by the title of his latest tour, La Travesia, The Journey, which opened at a packed AmericanAirlines Arena on Saturday night with images of a flying plane, he's still in flight.

• Singing out: Miami hosts gay choruses from around the world

  Choral instructor Gary Keating keeps a rainbow with the words ''safe space'' on the front of his office door at Dr. Michael M. Krop High in Northeast Miami-Dade.

• VANS WARPED TOUR

  Dream's reality for Coral Springs rockers

  Heading to the Vans Warped Tour? Try to catch Coral Springs rockers A Dream of Reality, who recently scored a slot on the tour. We can't tell you what time they're performing Saturday at downtown Miami's Bicentennial Park because even the bands don't know until the morning of the show. But the group's energetic stage presence and melodic ''screamo/emo'' sound is well worth checking out (watch their videos for After Dark and Let Me Be the One on YouTube.com).

• Warped: Modern rock tour makes South Florida stop

  Modern-rock fans are no doubt pumped up to see most of the main acts on the Vans Warped Tour -- Angels & Airwaves, Relient K, As I Lay Dying, Every Time I Die, Mayday Parade, to name a few. But no one is more thrilled to be at the concert than one of the bands: A Dream of Reality.

• Top 5 Hits | Coldplay hot again

  COLDPLAY HOT AGAIN As expected, Coldplay tops The Billboard 200 with Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends, which sold 721,000 first-week U.S. copies, falling just short of the band's other chart-topper, 2005's X&Y, which moved 737,000.

• Queen Latifah to join Miccosukee Zo's Summer Groove

  Queen Latifah will be among the celebrities joining Alonzo Mourning when he presents Miccosukee Zo's Summer Groove July 9-13. Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade also joins Mourning in the Summer Groove event. The five-day event includes youth basketball clinics, a golf tournament, a youth summit, free block party, all-star basketball game, and several after-parties. Latifah will be performing at the Publix ZSG Beach Ball Benefit Dinner at 7:30 p.m. July 11 at the InterContinental Hotel in downtown...

• In Stores Tuesday | New music

  Beck, Modern Guilt (Interscope Records). Anti-folk hero teams up with producer Danger Mouse. Great Big Sea, Fortune's Favour (Suma Records).

• We want you: Election rocks to a new Latin beat

  They're not just rocking the vote -- they're salseando, perreando and mariachi-ando it. Latino musicians, actors and celebrities are getting involved in the U.S. presidential campaign to an unprecedented degree this year, from voter-registration campaigns to online music videos for Barack Obama, the candidate drawing the most support from young Latinos.

• CELEBRITY Q&A

  Undimmed Starr: A portrait of the artist

  Ringo Starr's accomplishments sometimes get lost in the glory of John, Paul and George. But the Beatles drummer with the puppy-dog appeal was just as essential to the Fab Four's sound, his steady beat and innovative rhythms anchoring the group's melodic genius. Starr's pleasant voice also added a different dimension to the Beatles' sound on songs such as Act Naturally, Don't Pass Me By, With a Little Help From My Friends, Octopus's Garden and Yellow Submarine.

• ALBUM REVIEWS

  You don't hear anything like this on radio

  RAY SCOTT Crazy Like Me Jethropolitan Records You won't hear '70s-styled Outlaw country on mainstream radio. But thanks to the growth of online music sites, edgier, more interesting artists like Ray Scott and Jamey Johnson are free to make country music that harkens back to the Outlaw style popularized by rabble-rousing icons like Waylon Jennings. (Johnson's impressive Jennings-styled song cycle That Lonesome Song is out Aug. 5 on Mercury Nashville but don't expect pop-oriented radio to support it...

• BACKSTAGE PASS

  We're counting on a double billing

  It doesn't get much better than this for fans of melodic, soulful rock. Maroon 5 and Counting Crows are teaming up for an Oct. 4 show at the sprawling Cruzan Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach.

• Gilberto Gil to perform July 5

  Brazilian singer, guitarist and songwriter Gilberto Gil, also the Minister of Culture in Brazil, performs 8 p.m. July 5 at the Fillmore Miami Beach at Jackie Gleason Theater, 1700 Washington Ave., Miami Beach. Tickets are $26.50-$101.50; 305-673-7300 or Ticketmaster.com.