Epic (2004). Picture this one: You drag yourself all the way through the pouring rain over to the skate park…

Meet Next Life (2004), Morr Music.
If you’ve been looking for the perfect sound track to a hazy…

Os Novos Baianos (1975).
Os Novos Bajanos (The New Bahia’ns) were a Brazilian hippie outfit from the 1970’s…

Fat Cat Records (2005).
This record came out in May of 2005 and I’ve been meaning to mention…

by Anthony Bourdain.
Bourdain is one of the best chefs in New York, and an absolute food nut.…

by Ted L. Nancy and Jerry Seinfeld.
Letters from a nut is the creation of a dark mind.…

Dig! (2002) Dir: Ondi Timoner.
Quite an interesting idea for a documentary, having as it does two themes.…

Hotel Rwanda (2005) Dir: Terry George.
Deservedly lifting a host of awards upon its release, Hotel Rwanda is…

Crash (2005) Dir: Paul Haggis.
A study of race relations in modern America, this clever, wordy little film…

Office Space (1999) Dir. Mike Judge.
Peter Gibbons is a small cog in a huge corporation called Initech.…

Wu-Tang Clan (1993).
t’s hard to imagine now, but the Wu-Tang Clan once inspired a whole era of…

Dir. Chia-Liang Liu.
This is a true classic of the kung-fu genre, which has influenced generations of follow-up…

Dir. Jim Jarmusch.
Up, up, over the roofs of New York lives Ghost Dog, a hitman for the…

by David Katz.
Less data-oriented than the Rough Guide, yet still documentary. Few biographies are as readable to…

by Patrick Cariou.
Welcome to Jamrock ! 40 year-old French photographer Patrick Cariou, based in Brooklyn for the…

by Steve Barrow and Peter Dalton.
This one is as necessary to the reggae nerd as the complete…

Various Artists.
Trojan records has released an awful lot of Jamaican music for close to 40 years now.…

Greensleeves 1999 (GREL255).
I wish I didn’t sound like an old geezer complaining about things, but with Jamaican…

Art & Sound Ltd Label 1976 / Trojan Records 1976 (6.22607/AO).
A Jamaican rocksteady essential, In The Ghetto…

Jamaican Bling.
So, your white-stafarian reggae band (named after anything related to smoking spliffs) is ready to release…