Music

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…

Science fiction, tribal rituals, transpersonal psychology … These are just a few of the ingredients that make up the metaphysical sonic force known as Portable AKA Bodycode, otherwise known by the name Alan Abrahams. Born and raised in South Africa, Abrahams soaked up the continent’s ancestral sounds. Later, he would…

Tabou Combo has one of the most revered funk breakdowns in all of musicland. And between the voudou beats, big soul horns, salsa turns, merengue runs, and rockin’ drums, this band is the most eclectic kompa crew in the world. The group started in 1968 under the name Los Incognitos…

Question: If you log onto Spotify and search for “Art Basel Miami Beach,” do Nas, Theophilus London, TV on the Radio, and Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings pop up? Answer: No, the system just gets cranky, asks the user to check his or her spelling, and suggests trying “different…

Score free tix to the Black Lips’ Art Basel gig at Grand Central. Over the last month, the New York Police Department’s been rife with scandal. In late October, a gang of current and former NYPD patrolmen were busted for a million-dollar conspiracy to transport blackmarket M-16s and handguns across…

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…

Basketball fans are pissed. NBA Commissioner David Stern calls the lockout a “big charade,” admitting that the 2011-2012 is in jeopardy because “the union is ratcheting up.” Alex “Rube” Rubin, the YouTube rapper whose “NBA Lockout Anthem” has become a collective battle cry for season ticket holders, argues that “the…

​NBA commissioner David Stern may be the most hated man in Miami these days. After all, the lockout means that us Heat fans have been trying to scrub the shitty aftertaste of that catastrophuck of a final out of our mouths for five long months. Luckily, a local rapper has…