After going on ice in 2016, WMNF’s exotic evening of eclectic entertainment—Tropical Heatwave—returned to Ybor City last year. Last Saturday, the community radio station’s revered music festival was back at the Cuban Club which hosted 17 bands—plus the history of hip-hop takeover in the theater—across four stages.

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Selwyn Birchwood plays the Cuban Club in Ybor City, Florida on May 4, 2024. Credit: Photo by Kimberly DeFalco
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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...