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Check out this piece from 2 Years Back! Here's Nat where we visit SWEAT Records and the classic Yesterday & Today Records. Go Out Tomorrow & Support Your Local Record Shop!

The Hialeah Social Club - Coke, Antiques, Pearly Queen

Manuel Mato did a very cool thing he put out a CD in '07 cataloging the cool 70s sound of the Cuban-American Bands that were setting it off in Miami then - At M & M Records in Hialeah, THIS story by Amy Dirscoll tells the tale. She writes about capturing the raw beauty of the emerging sound on his Sound Triangle label. “It’s the story of Miami, the story of Hialeah and the music of the exiles,” Mato proclaims. “A beautiful story.”

Below is an excerpt

“It’s an unadulterated, first generation of bicultural mixing,” he said. “You can hear a mishmash of things within the same album, this huge dichotomy of styles that seems very rough around the edges,” said Raul Murciano Jr., who teaches “Introduction to Cuban Music” at the University of Miami.

Record Store Day in the M.I.A.

We've got a buncha great Latino record stores down in Miami but when it comes to the tried and true hallmarks of the indie record store scene - you've only got a handful - The awesome RadioActive in Lauderdale, "the buy-the-new-beastie boys (Check Your Head) at-Midnight-back-in-95" Uncle Sam's on South Beach" - but we grew up at Y&T and LOVE what Lolo is doin' at Sweat - so we paid them homage on this week's weekly ñ on the main page. It's all about Record Store Mania - to celebrate National Independent Record Store Day - and we through in name checks and cover art for Miami classics like Coke, Opus, Los Antiques, Fred Neil, The Birdwatchers... please go check it out. And check your head. Ali Brennan in Ohio - went to her neighborhood stores as well. You wanna send in your fave record stores dear reader? Do IT! We'll post it up like Dr. J.