"Jesus was a sailor when he walked along the water and he spent a long time watching from his lonely wooden tower and when he knew for certain, only drowning men could see him he said 'all men will be sailors then until the sea shall free them' but he...

Mr. Oizo is a French electrodude who came onto the scene in 1999 with his song "Flat Beat" and it's video's classic headbanging puppet protagonist, Flat Eric. He expounded the song and character into a series of awesome French Levi's ads, but remained...

One of my sacred cows. The Stooges were BY FAR the rawest band of the late 60's "classic rock" era, projecting the dirt and squalor of late 60's Detroit where a burning building took the place of an organized "love in." The hellish din of the Stooges...

Charles Bukowski is the fucking MAN. A writer, a poet, a genius, you know it, Bukowski is the slum god of the human soul. I've recently come across some of his spoken word set to classical music which works oh-so-well, because that's what he listened...

Rick the rulaa! The best storyteller in the biz, England-born Slick Rick had a hugely influential style that enlightened Snoop Dog, Tupac, Biggie, Nas, etc. He had a career de-railed by a trip to prison for shooting a innocent bystander in a crazy...