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  LOCAL APPEARANCE

  C-3PO sheds his costume

  Just in time for Halloween, Anthony Daniels is taking off the costume. You may have a hard time recognizing the actor, but then you hear that unmistakable voice . . . It's C-3PO.
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  BACKSTAGE PASS

  Concerts | Lady Gaga performs New Year's Eve

  Donavon Frankenreiter: On sale from 10 a.m. Friday; 8 p.m. Jan. 2; CR; $18.

  Lady Gaga: On sale from 10 a.m. Friday; 7 p.m. Dec. 31; KNIGHT; $23-$63.
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  Brazilian diva Gal Costa makes rare visit to Miami

  Of all the great female singers Brazil has produced, perhaps none is more beloved, or more identified with her homeland, than Gal Costa. Since she emerged in the late 1960s as the muse of tropicalismo used her unique, silvery voice and serene, joyous persona to embody a quintessentially Brazilian spirit and musicality that still enrapture audiences and critics.
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  MUSIC

  Cuba concert turns spotlight on fiery singer

  Olga Tañon's concert at Hard Rock Live won't begin for several hours, but the show starts as the singer's giant motor home pulls up to the hotel entrance at the Hollywood gambling and entertainment complex.
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  LOCAL BANDS

  Garage rockers rev up

  To most locals, Bill Baggs State Park on Key Biscayne is a lush, green escape from the work-week grind. It's not a place where you'd expect to find a rock band, and certainly not the most significant band Miami has produced in years -- one that has reinvigorated the local live music scene, recorded a half-dozen records and put the city back on the rock 'n' roll map.
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  THE CONCERT SCENE

  Bryan Adams: Bare Bones

  Since the early '80s, you've heard Bryan Adams' unmistakably raspy voice belt out radio-friendly pop hits including Lonely Nights, Heaven, Straight From the Heart, Run to You, Summer of '69 and (Everything I Do) I Do It For You. Friday night, the Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter hits the stage with just an acoustic guitar at the Gusman Center for the Performing Arts in Miami, stripping down his tunes to their pure nature.
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  BACKSTAGE PASS

  Chris Brown, R. Kelly coming to town

  Emilie Autumn: On sale from 10 a.m. Friday; 8 p.m. Nov. 6; Culture Room, 3045 N Federal Hwy,Ft Lauderdale; $14.99. 954-564-1074 or www.cultureroom.net.
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  FOLK MUSIC

  Jay Brannan's musical therapy

  Folk singer Jay Brannan's path to cult stardom (and a one-night gig in Miami): Told he has no talent, Brannan gets kicked out of acting school, then lands a plum role in John Cameron Mitchell's controversial, sexually explicit 2006 film Shortbus -- as a singer who has a ménage a` trois with a dissatisfied gay couple.
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  THE CONCERT SCENE

  Sealed with a KISS

  Get ready to rock and roll all night -- KISS is back. The veteran rockers' ''Alive 35'' world tour is an homage to KISS Alive, the double album that rocketed the guys to global fame in the mid-'70s.

• COLUMBUS HIGH SCHOOL

  Allman Brothers bassist jams at Columbus High School

  Allman Brothers' bassist sits in with members of the Columbus High School band. ``A life-changing experience,'' senior Juan Carlos Fleites says.

• CONCERT REVIEW

  Review: Leonard Cohen's songs still resonate

  You could certainly call him old school, except that, even at 75, Leonard Cohen is in a class by himself: randy and religious, filled with deep irony and an equally profound sense of faith and wonder.
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  MUSIC

  Dutch drummer can't help but play

  Han Bennink was feeling frisky. Onstage with pianist Misha Mengelberg and saxophonist Kenny Millions at the Hollywood Central Performing Arts Center in 2007, the legendary Dutch jazz drummer displayed the mischievous wit and childlike exuberance for which he's long been revered.
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  MUSIC

  Rock album classics have animal magnetism

  Weezer has learned the lesson of many great bands before it: If you want an eye-grabbing album cover, include an animal, preferably in an incongruous setting.

• GO & DO

  On the cheap | Free (or almost free) music

  Hear free music -- and we're not talking illegal downloads. We're talking free (or almost free) live music this weekend.
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  COMING TO TOWN

  The Bravery: tunes made for strutting

  Fans of post-punk and electronic music have a chance to catch New York band The Bravery in South Florida on Friday. Expect new tunes from the band's upcoming album, Slow Poison, and such hits as An Honest Mistake and Time Won't Let Me Go. Lead singer Sam Endicott took some time to chat with us.
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  Buzz Bake Sale to rock Cruzan in Dec.

  Virginia Alonso: On sale from 10 a.m. Friday; 4:30 p.m. Dec. 7; MDCA; $12-$37. 305-547-5414. Buzz Bake Sale: Features live music from Thirty Seconds to Mars, Matisyahu, Metric, Our Lady Peace, Panic at the Disco, Manchester Orchestra, Halestorm, Chicago-based rock trio Chevelle, Sick Puppies, Cage the Elephant, Skindred, Anberlin, The Used, After Midnight Project and Smitty's band Ladies and Gentlemen; on sale from 10 a.m. Friday; 10 a.m. Dec. 5; CRUZAN; $40 reserved seats, $20 lawn. 561-795-8883.
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  MUSIC

  Red Priest conjures the spirit of Halloween

  Americans are big into Halloween. That astute observation comes from Piers Adams, a British musician who crosses the Atlantic each fall to bewitch listeners with the mesmerizing trills of his recorder, conjuring demons, goblins and bad dreams from the Baroque era.
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  MUSIC

  Controversial reggae star Buju Banton meets with gay leaders

  Facing a string of canceled concerts and protests by angry gay activists, Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton met with several gay leaders during a tour stop Monday in San Francisco.
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  TELEVISION

  Documentary follows the evolution of Latin music

  When the Fania All-Stars played a legendary concert at Yankee Stadium in 1973, the stands were filled with 63,000 people who were so crazy for the radical new music called salsa that they stormed the stage. It was a bigger audience than the 55,000 who turned out for the Beatles' famed show at Shea Stadium eight years before. And yet there was almost no mention of the event in mainstream media, as if, for most of the country, one of the biggest concert events to take place in America hadn't happened.
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  POP CULTURE

  Fall Out Boy's out with a new comic books series

  The Fall Out Boy song Tiffany Blews has inspired a comic book -- and that may be just the beginning. Fall Out Toy Works, a five-issue miniseries from Image Comics that's loosely based on the rock band's song, is in shops now.
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  BACKSTAGE PASS

  Raphael Saadiq comes to the Fillmore

  Raphael Saadiq: On sale from 10 a.m. Friday; 8 p.m. Nov. 28; FILLMORE; call for price.
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  MUSIC

  Thievery Corporation brings indie spirit and musical fusion to the Fillmore

  Since getting together in 1995, Washington, D.C.-based duo Rob Garza and Eric Hilton, better known as Thievery Corporation, have found success with original music and resolute career independence. Their blend of electronica, dub, jazz, bossa nova and a host of other styles -- from cheesy film scores to Afrobeat -- has found a wide audience without mainstream radio airplay or major label promotion.
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  CONCERTS

  Review | Alice Cooper: Death becomes him

  Anyone who wants to join a band should be required to see an Alice Cooper concert. For the sold out crowd at the Pompano Beach Amphitheatre Saturday night it was getting your rock and roll Ph.D, compliments of Professor Cooper.
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  MUSIC

  Rocker Travis McCoy raises voice for AIDS awareness

  When Travis McCoy, lead singer of hip-hop/rock band Gym Class Heroes, lost someone he loved to AIDS more than 15 years ago, he wasn't only saddened by his loss -- he was afraid that he could have been infected, too. ``You think `Oh no, we've shared kitchen utensils,' '' says McCoy, who was 11 or 12 at the time. ``You think, `Will the kids at school know?' '' When he learned in a school health program that you don't get AIDS from sharing silverware or touching someone, ``I had this clarity and relief, but also enormous guilt.''
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  JAZZ

  Feeling a global influence

  As music director of Machito and his Afro-Cubans in the 1940s, the late Cuban saxophonist and bandleader Mario Bauzá was a key figure in the development of what came to be known as Latin jazz. Yet, he often railed against the term.
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  Noisemaker: A rock opera celebrates the discordant sounds and large life of a Miami original

  It's 11:30 on a Saturday night, and something weird is in the air at Tobacco Road in Miami's Brickell neighborhood. Onstage, a crew of punk rock veterans fronted by Holy Terrors' Rob Elba and singer-songwriter Brian Franklin are setting up.
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  BACKSTAGE PASS

  Andrea Bocelli, Joshua Bell coming to town

  Joshua Bell: On sale from 10 a.m. Thursday; 8 p.m. Feb. 15; BCPA; $35-$75. Andrea Bocelli: On sale from 10 a.m. Monday; 8 p.m. Nov. 28; BAC; $77.75-$352.75.
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  CONCERT

  Alice Cooper's latest show links murder and music

  Murder never goes out of style. And when the victim is responsible for some of the best music in the American Hard Rock Songbook, well, people are gonna take extra notice. That's probably why folks have been flocking to catch Alice Cooper's murder-themed stage shows for the past 40 years. We've got bloodlust.

• JUANES CONCERT

  Poll: Cuban Americans change tune about Juanes concert in Havana

  A poll showed that most Cuban-Americans now approve of the concert that Juanes put together in Havana.

• COMING TO TOWN

  Killers' drummer ready for Miami's Cuban food

  Lovers of up-tempo dance tunes and over-the-top Vegas drama are in luck when The Killers visit South Florida on Saturday to perform an array of hits from their albums, including Hot Fuss and Day & Age.
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  MUSIC

  Early Paul McCartney musings discovered in Liverpool

  A discovery in a Liverpool library has revealed that Paul McCartney's writing talent was winning him prizes when he was just 10 -- though for an essay, rather than a song.
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  MUSIC

  Folk rocks: Monsters just wanna have fun

  At the Viceroy Hotel, the Monsters of Folk pounced upon bottles of Kombucha tea with an enthusiasm befitting an '80s Juicy Fruit commercial. All four members of the indie rock super group -- My Morning Jacket frontman Jim James; troubadour Conor Oberst and producer and multi-instrumentalist Mike Mogis, both from Bright Eyes; and M. Ward of six lovingly crafted solo albums and the duo She & Him (with actress Zooey Deschanel) -- are devotees to the fermented elixir that most would consider an acquired taste.

• ENTERTAINMENT

  Gay-rights groups object to Miami concert by Buju Banton and Beenie Man

  Gay activists are upset about an upcoming concert by Jamaican reggae stars Buju Banton and Beenie Man, who've sung about killing gay people.

• THE MUSIC SCENE

  Rejects: Get ready to rock!

  Fans of catchy pop-rock better get in early (7 p.m.) to the sold-out Blink 182 concert Saturday night at the Cruzan Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach if they want to catch Move Along creators, The All American Rejects. The band's 40-minute live show promises to be packed with punchy fun and hits, including some from new album When the World Comes Down.
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  Actress-turned-rocker Juliette Lewis brings her music to South Florida

  She mesmerized film buffs in her breakout role as a precocious teen in 1991's Cape Fear by notoriously -- and improvisationally -- sucking dangerous convict Robert De Niro's thumb. She let loose as the deranged Mallory Knox opposite Woody Harrelson in Oliver Stone's gleefully violent farce Natural Born Killers. And she plays roller-derby girl Iron Maven in Drew Barrymore's new directorial debut Whip It, which opens Oct. 2.
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  BACKSTAGE PASS

  Honor Society, Underoath coming to Revolution

  Honor Society: On sale from 10 a.m. Saturday; 5 p.m. Nov. 8; REV; $14. Underoath: On sale from 10 a.m. Saturday; 6 :30 p.m. Nov. 24; REV; $20.

• Review | Journey and fans keep believin' in rousing rock show

  The most common refrain from the Twitterverse to a series of positive posts on Journey's sold-out concert at Hollywood's Hard Rock Live on Thursday night was: ``I love Journey, but not sure how I'd like them without Steve Perry.''
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  CELEBRITY Q&A

  Rob Thomas: He's so smooth

  Rob Thomas made his name as frontman for the alt-rock band Matchbox Twenty in the mid-'90s with radio-friendly tunes including Push, Bent and How Far We've Come. But the singer is so prolific a songwriter he forged a solo career as well, earning four Grammy Awards in 1999 for Smooth, his No. 1 hit collaboration with Santana.
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  OneRepublic frontman has no reason to 'Apologize'

  Pop-music fans might not have heard the name Ryan Tedder, but they've surely heard his songs. The singer/songwriter for OneRepublic, which opens Wednesday night for Rob Thomas at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino near Hollywood, penned one of the biggest hits -- and most infectious - of the decade, Apologize, plus Bleeding Love, made famous by X-Factor winner Leona Lewis.

• A day after Juanes show, emotions in Miami still mixed

  When Fabio Diaz settled in with 15 members of his extended Cuban family to watch Colombian singer Juanes' historic concert in Havana on television Sunday, he -- and the rest of his clan -- had mixed feelings. Diaz, who is 35 and came to Miami at 19, thought the event should have been staged in an intermediary location between the island and Miami, as a bridge between the two sides. And he wanted Juanes to speak out directly about freedom in Cuba.

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