"When it's good, you have to shoot." Leroy Grannis knew what he had to do to capture some of the most important images of early American surf culture; put down his board and pick up his camera...

Marcus 'Marquitos' Garcia, member of the Antibalas, offers us a get down raw and dirty Afrobeat laden LP, worthy of the great Fela Kuti himself.

Photography from a different perspective? Welcome to the world of the fisheye lens.

Everyone knows that we all need to do more to make change happen. So no one needs another excessive book of facts and damming predictions, right?

Ah yes, the British winter. Rain, Hogmanay & The Lash. If only you were slumming it in Polynesia, eh?

So absurd is current pop culture, that some people are happy to file Jamie T alongside such shite as The Kooks. Fools.

Berlin supergroup Contriva collect together the waifs and strays from such notables as Mina, The Notwist and Masha Qrella.

Every now and then an album comes into your life, seemingly out of nowhere, and just makes everything a bit better.