His Steamy Summer

Started back in 1996, the Dutch pop-punkers The Apers are definitely one of the world's best poppunk bands of today. People who loves the Ramones, Undertones and Screeching Weasel will be happy to find out The Apers used those same good ol' three chords and still managed to come with a totally refreshing sound to show you real Rock & Roll is ready to survive another century.

Beautiful Scars was more than worth the wait. The album's cast, is, as usual, full of all-stars: Steve Swallow, Robby Ameen, Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez, Milton Cardona, Fernando Saunders, Ron Blake, Alfredo Triff, Yosvany Terry Cabrera, Dafnis Prieto, Pedro Martinez, Bryan Carrott, and himself of course. His guest vocalists are an amazing, unlikely batch who work together in many ways: Ross, Xiomara Laugart, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Leijia Hanrahan, Lindsay Marcus. Some friends help out in various places: Billy Bang, Anthony Cox, Richie Flores, Mario Rivera, and the great guitarist Leo Nocentelli. The music is, for lack of a better word "Exotic": here, jazz meets many Latin rhythms, meets organic breakbeats and folk musics from all over the world in this heady stew of lyrics born of raw eros, politics, spirituality, and art-poetry.

Stunning documentaries transport viewers to faraway places ranging from the steamy plains of Africa to the splendors of cold Antarctica. The main focus of the program is on animals and ecosystems around the world. The series has won more than 600 honours from the television industry, the international wildlife film community