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Volt-Face Doubout'! (VFM Productions/Debs Music) (star) (star) (star) A quintet from Martinique, a French island in the Caribbean, Volt-Face mixes reggae, jamback, rumba, ska, disco, techno, pop and miscellaneous island...

They hardly seem like the kind of drinks we'd find at a bar with no name outside, a buzzer and paper cutouts of George Washington and Abe Lincoln covering the...

King Timo Trouble (TVR Productions) (star) (star) 1/2 The pride of St. Maarten's Dutch side, King Timo is a local boy whose music is played not just at home, but...

It's bitter cold outside. On Halsted Street, the wind's whipping scarves and hats off pedestrians and everyone seems to have lost their necks, hunching down into as many layers as...

The really cool people stay home for New Year's Eve, avoiding drunken fools and desperate last-minute passes. But if you insist on making it a night on the town, here...

For a Chicago rock 'n' roll band, Citrus is awfully weird: no noise, no angst. What you get instead is a rootsy feel-good sound, with flashes of Little Feat, Spirit,...

Let's talk about that other kind of nightlife -- the kind that doesn't end when the bands pack up their horns, when the bars close and the bus stops running...

Marc Anthony Todo a Su Tiempo (Soho Latino/Sony)(star) (star) (star) (star) Two years in the making, "Todo a Su Tiempo" ("Everything at its own pace") is Marc Anthony's promise kept...

It's just a little eerie to see Jenny Magnus and Beau O'Reilly play out "The Trip," the latest installment in their "The Madras Parables" series. Watching these former lovers banter...

1. Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, "Rey Azucar" (SDI) 2. Desorden Publico, "Canto Popular de La Vida y La Muerte" (SDI) 3. Caifanes, "El Nervio del Volcan" (BGM) 4. Los Tres, "La...