Lee "Scratch" Perry

Ohio's Nelsonville Music Festival is fast becoming the highlight of my yearly concert-going. Read More

This summer, to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Jamaican Independence, The O2 and its multiple venues including indigO2, will be transformed into a Caribbean oasis as over 50 artists take to the stage as part of Respect Jamaica 50. Read More

Nestled inside a historic cabin in the Hocking Hills region of Ohio, Southeast Engine bandmates/brothers Adam and Jesse Remnant stared out at a quaint but growing audience—most gracing small wooden benches or sitting atop an old rug from which clouds of dust rose at each foot stomp. Read More

Bands, with enough practice, may be able to achieve musical precision, harmonic unity, and all around rocking-ness, but how many can claim intergalatic travel and elaborate masks? Read More

But that night, "I got in a fight here," he said, gesturing at the bar. Read More

The Lee Scratch Perry vinyl figure is from PRESSPOP. Read More

Bob Marley packed a lot of living into his 36 years. Read More

Aggronautix is currently accepting orders for the Lee Scratch Perry vinyl figure from PRESSPOP - in both the single figure (US$39.95) and a combo-pack (US$$54.95) of both the toy and a DVD of The Upsetter (movie trailer shown below). Read More

Lee "Scratch" Perry; Walt "Clyde" Frazier; Puma "Clyde" sneakers; Groove Merchant Records in San Francisco; Eddie Harris's Plug Me In ; that you could wear beanies even when it was hot outside; that billy goats had beards; Mike Mills (then just a graphic designer); Spike Jonze (then just a maker of skate videos); how to pronounce "Stuyvesant"; that diaper rash is "funky"; that the egg is a symbol of life, whatever that means; all-time hits leader Sadaharu Oh; Ricky Powell (though I had no idea what he "did"); what a "mullet" was; Ben Davis work clothing ("Union-made"); the situation in Tibet; "'Sweetie Pie' by the Stone Alliance"; that I wanted to one day move to New York. When Adam Yauch passed away on Friday after a two-year battle with cancer, it seemed that everyone around me took the loss personally. Read More

Somehow I feel better about life knowing that there are 1000 of these on the planet. Read More