I don´t know if it´s a good thing that the people over at HighSnobiety can´t even spell reggae - I guess it is if they keep promoting shoes like these pretty ugly “New Balance Raggae”…

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Just back from BK, I´d like to share a nice cozy spot which was recommended to us as a “wicked bar where I sometimes spin reggae tunes” by Neil Nice, a friend working at TurnTableLab.

It´s called Spur Tree and it´s located in the Lower East Side, NYC (the exact address is 76 Orchard Street, NY 10002, between Broome and Grand); easily identified by a big red sign with a black tree on it.

Read the whole article here.

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Nope. No New York story again. But good news still: I just put Shook magazine issue numero 2 (spring) in the shop. It´s dope as the grilled corn with mayo, parmesan and lime from the Habana Outpost food truck (and it looks as good as the ladies standing in line there). Trust me.

P.S. Also listen to this (Mad Decent on Fairtilizer), laugh at those (Jonathan Sabine´s pieces) and read that (The New Yorker on auto tune).

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Lodown magazine #61 is out and features FIRST´s “Thursday Night at the Fights” story (pictures by Peter Dean Rickards, words by JJ). Go get your copy now.

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I have to admit that I´m not a gamer at all. However, I rate great design and I love good music. GTA IV seems to have both. You´ve probably read in this blog that Mavado delivered the soundtrack to the trailer. Today, Dancehall Mobi reports that

The final release of Grand Auto Theft IV also includes music from Bob Marley and son, Damian Marley (a duet called “Stand Up Jamrock”), as well as Munga Honourable’s “No Fraid”.

Nice. However, what I find almost more interesting, is that the people from Rockers NYC

had the opportunity to style two characters in GTA4, Little Jacob and Real Badman – Jamaican gangsters and gunrunners for the main character, Niko Bellic. Little Jacob can be seen wearing our Evil Heat hoodie, and keep an eye out for a vintage Rockers NYC “No Surrender” tee in the GTA4 mission “Jamaican Heat”.

Check the picture above to see what a great job they´ve done.

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After bringing you the international iTunes Reggae top 10 albums a few days ago, I´d like to present you some more stats. This time from the BBC´s brand new “Sound Index”. The Sound Index is something like the Billboard charts 2.0 - a

massive index of the hottest bands and tracks that are being talked about on the internet right now.

It works like this:

Every six hours the Sound Index crawls some of the biggest music sites on the internet - Bebo, MySpace, Last.FM, iTunes, Google and YouTube - to find out what people are writing about, listening to, watching, downloading and logging on to. It then counts and analyses this data to make an instant list of the most popular 1000 artists and tracks on the web. The more blog mentions, comments, plays, downloads and profile views an artist or track has, the higher up the Sound Index they are. So, the Sound Index is a music buzz index controlled entirely by the public. (BBC)

I checked what this index looks like for Reggae (artists and tracks) in the US and the UK for a male/female demographic in the age of 5 to 35. See the results:

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