GZA at The Stage December 3

After the Wu-Tang mother ship crashed full force into pop culture with the release of the 1993 gangsta rap classic Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), the first order of business was to send out the pods. Method Man was the first to strike out solo with 1994’s stellar and intensely…

Yo! MTV Raps is Back! Top Ten Funky Fresh Freestyles From the Yo! Studio

​Straight from the horse’s mouth: MTV2 is bringing back beloved old-school MTV hip-hop showcase Yo! MTV Raps for a special thirty-minute retrospective to be aired after the first-ever Sucker Free Awards. We’re a little disappointed that after almost two decades of no Yo! and an ever-shriveling focus on, uh, music…

Top Five Rock ‘n’ Roll Plane Crashes

Rock ‘n’ roll makes ordinary men and women immortal. Almost. They’re regular people who were born unfamous and will someday die, just like us. But because they’re awesome at playing the guitar or howling into a mike (you know, rocking), they become the center of attention for millions of idolatrous…

Happy Hump Day! Ten Habit-Forming Songs About Humping

Why is Wednesday known all across the world as Hump Day? Well, the phoney-boloney, PG explanation is that Wednesday’s middle-of-the-week placement makes it something like a fleshy protuberance on the back of an animal, perhaps a camel or a church bell-ringing hunchback. You’ve made your climb through Monday and Tuesday…

Lil B’s Seven Best “I Got AIDS” Safe Sex Tips

While onstage at Coachella this past April, goofball swag rapper Lil’ B (AKA Brandon McCartney) announced to the world that his new album would be called I’m Gay. And everybody — in the audience, on the internet, Based Gs in the kitchen doing the cookin’ dance — lost they shit…

The Have-Nots and Just the Funny Team Up With Comedytime TV For Cheap Laughs

South Florida “funniest comics you’ve never heard of,” the Have-Nots have teamed up with Just the Funny — Coral Way’s comedy clubhouse for sketch and improv. They’re doing a television broadcast that is sure to be the South Florida comedy equivalent to the Power Rangers’ Megazord bio-mechanical robot vehicle, or…

Five Ways Getting Punched in the Throat by Agnostic Front Will Change Your Life

​While hardcore has long been colonized by pampered yet meatheaded suburbanites, the original purveyors of NYC’s first wave of punker-than-punk rock ‘n’ roll were actually meatheads from the unforgiving freak show that was pre-Giuliani New York. Violent crime was rampant, public services were seriously underfunded, and Times Square sat on…

R.I.P. Bil Keane, Family Circus Creator

Family Circus creator Bil Keane just passed away at the age of 89. For over 41 years, his daily one-panel comic has set and upheld the standard for innocence and wholesome all-ages wisdom within our nation’s funny pages. And while Circus is still in circulation, an era has ended nonetheless…

Five Really Old Rock Stars We’d Like to $#*%

TMZ has got us playing a lil’ game called, Who’d You Rather? Of course, the implied last half of that question is: “…do it with?” And by it, we mean da nasty. Yesterday, the gossip site asked us if we’d rather rub private parts with Led Zep shrieker Robert Plant…

John of All Trades

John Sayles is a Renaissance man in the truest sense of the term. He self-produced his first feature film, 1979’s Return of the Secaucus 7, and quickly moved on from exploring baby-boomer blues. His later films run a varied assortment of subjects, ranging from extraterrestrials landing in Harlem (The Brother…

Moments in the Sun

Postmodernism is slipperier than a greased watermelon. Society used to have simple standards and reasonable expectations: up was up, men and women were men and women, and fiction tidily progressed from beginning to end in a linear fashion. But then Postmodernism — the literary and arts movement that threw out…

Immortal Technique Performing Last-Minute Show at Occupy Miami Today

​Last night, the official Facebook for Occupy Miami — the Dade County wing of the international, autonomous financial reform protest movement, Occupy Wall Street — shouted out superlefty MC Immortal Technique (AKA Felipes Andres Coronel) for giving them props while performing at Grand Central. The rapper has been an outspoken…