Best Musicians


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Readers' picks

Best Bartender
 Cat, The Poor House, Fort Lauderdale

Best Club DJ
 DJ Kid Fresh

Best Radio Personalities
 Paul Castronovo and Young Ron Brewer, Big 105.9

Best Athlete
 Dwyane Wade, Miami Heat

Best TV Personality
 Jade Alexander, WFOR-TV (Channel 4)
 
Southern Flaw vocalist Bobby Johnston, Pandabite guitarist Juan Montoya, Remnants and Hooples bassist Dominic Sirianni and AC Cobra drummer Chris Maggio

 If you took these four men and threw them and their instruments in a room together, they'd probably stir up a horrible cacophony and give each other the finger, and that'd be the end of it. Maggio would want to add some guitar tracks, as he's also a more-than-competent guitarist. Montoya would bristle. Johnston would show up extremely late and completely inebriated, causing Sirianni to roll his eyes. Nevertheless, in the outside chance they played nice and actually gelled, this would be one hell of a band. In any case, these musicians represent the best rock 'n' rollers South Florida has to offer. Maggio's drumming is phenomenal, Montoya is a guitar god, Sirianni can play just about anything, and Johnston boasts the sort of cathartic wail that only hard living can produce.