Svntos, who plays Hotel Haya in Ybor City, Florida on Jan. 30, 2025. Credit: Photo via djsvntos/Instagram

Just Some Friends, a newish collective of music and event curators, takes over Café Quiquiriqui at this pretty Ybor City hotel and turns it into a lounge.

The soundtrack comes courtesy of Dove Award-winning producer Okay Benny (stylized “okay.benny”) and Svntos (stylized in all-caps), both spinning nothing but vinyl records from their Latin, soul, funk and jazz collections.

There’s no cover for the first installment of La Tropicana Hi Fi Music Lounge at Hotel Haya in Ybor City on Thursday, Jan. 30.

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This article appears in Jan 23-29, 2025.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...