Conventional wisdom tells you that Eric B. & Rakim debuted strong in 1987 with their greatest work, Paid in Full , and the...

Ingmar Bergman is one of the all-time greats of world cinema, the Swedish director whose name is for many synonymous with capital-A Art i...

I grew up in the 1980s, the decade of excess, and many of my tastes (from music and films to food and clothing) were shaped during that de...

 About two thirds of the way through Jean-Jacques Beineix’s 1981 film Diva , our hero, Jules, is being chased through a Paris Metro stati...

Of the many admirable qualities of The Books’ 2003 album The Lemon of Pink , the most prevalent in my mind is its fragmentary nature; so...

            I know I’ve mentioned this before, but I feel as though I need to qualify this at the beginning of any article I write about a h...

Dexter Gordon’s 1962 Blue Note record Go! is the kind of record that you can give to your friends who say they don’t understand jazz and t...

It is possible that Roman Polanski’s Chinatown is one of the few movies that has absolutely everything . Beginning with a labyrinthine s...

Neil Young’s 1974 album On The Beach marked the middle of what has become known as his “ditch trilogy,” whereby he deliberately drove hi...

You’ve seen films in the “Blaxploitation” genre before undoubtedly, and while Willie Dynamite has all the trappings of one - the story c...

When I was in junior high school MTV made its debut, but we didn’t have cable so it was just something I heard about or occasionally got...