Oliver Wang sits at his computer and gets busy schooling Web surfers in the ways of funk, jazz, soul, hip-hop, and other smoking grooves he wants to share - a little Eartha Kitt here, a bit of Biggie Smalls there. By day, he's a freelance music critic and ethnic studies student who just finished his doctoral thesis at the University of California at Berkeley. But with a click of a mouse, he leaves the world of professors and editors behind and becomes O-Dub, keeper of the popular audioblog site Soul Sides.  

Soul Sides is where O-Dub can express his thoughts on Memphis soul and Latin jazz, on Billy Butler's Twang Thang and Jack McDuff's Electric Surfboard. It's where you can read his astute criticism and download his favorite music. For free.