Photo by Eddie RosenstockQ-Tip with The Cool KidsWednesday, November 26, 2008Revolution, Fort LauderdaleBetter Than: Watching Q-Tip live on Letterman.The Review: Rap shows normally feature an MC accompanied by a tour DJ and a laptop, but when an artist such as Q-Tip brings a tight band with him onstage alongside the legendary DJ Scratch, it takes the concert to another dimension. Last night The Abstract smashed Revolution going into his deep Tribe Called Quest catalog while featuring tracks off
There's something a little Sheila E about Tracy Young. Her steadfast, stoic presence when she's doing her DJ thing reminds you of Prince's bongo-smacking concubine in her Arsenio Hall Show heyday. For both women, that temple-of-steel impenetrability is/was their greatest weapon in a male-dominated world. On face, Young -- Miami-based since leaving the DC area in 1998 -- would appear to have everything dicked. The biggest female DJ in the world, her game is a tribal, disco-ized house that gets t
This Saturday night at around 8:30 local time, the world will be attacked by zombies. They'll look like the ones in the video above. It's part of Thrill the World 2009, the global attempt to set a Guinness World Record for the largest simultaneous performance of Michael Jackson's "Thriller." An estimated 10,000 to 50,000 zombies from more than 400 events in 42 countries are expected to crawl from the crypt and bust a move in honor of the late King of Pop.But no Eighties-era dancing drama is comp
