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Dec 09, 2005

Out and About: Weekend Picks

FRIDAY: >> New York’s Latin-funk collective Yerba Buena, the energetic offspring of Venezuelan-born producer Andrés Levin and his Cuban-born wife Ileana Padrón (aka Cucu Diamantes), is the only band touring the country today that could bring together a guest artist line-up for their latest album, Island Life, that includes M1 from Dead Prez, comedian and actor John Leguizamo, and gypsy punks Gogol Bordello. The combo may occasionally feel like its trying to be an Afro-Cuban…

 
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