The Island Story - Celebrating 50 Years of Melodious Music

Island Records is the record label that gave us so many superstars in one album. To name a few: Bryan Ferry, Jimmy Cliff, Bono, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Lord Creator, Millie,  The Spencer Davis Group, Cat...

Universal Responsibility in a Matrixed Economic World

I am concerned that Obama and his staff are not aware enough of the danger and that his planned policies do not go far enough. Reading up on America's depression era "New Deal" of the 1930's and the times...

Eight-Year Old Connie Talbot Tops US Pop Charts

Eight-year old "talent show star" Connie Talbot, who placed second in the UK singing competition television show "Britain's Got Talent" is now topping the U.S. Billboard charts with her single "Three Little...

CURSE OF THE KILLER FLIP-FLOPS

Sun related cancer is still a huge problem. Despite all the health warnings of the last few years being tanned is still seen as a fashion and wealth statement. " SUN-LOVERS risk getting cancer from wearing...

Bob Marley's Mother Dies at 81

Cedella Booker, or 'Mama B' as she was affectionately known, the mother of reggae's biggest star Bob Marley, has died at the age of 81."Cedella Booker, the mother of Jamaican music legend Bob Marley, has died, a...

Beenie Man – The King of Controversy

From his first major stage appearance at the Nelson Mandela stage show in 1991, Beenie man’s career has been splintered with controversy. Unlike his immediate counterpart, Bounti Killa, The self proclaimed King of the Dancehall has kept his career buoyant during rough times...

Beenie Man – The King of Controversy

From his first major stage appearance at the Nelson Mandela stage show in 1991, Beenie man’s career has been splintered with controversy. Unlike his immediate counterpart, Bounti Killa, The self proclaimed King of the Dancehall has kept his career buoyant during rough times...

Beenie Man – The King of Controversy

From his first major stage appearance at the Nelson Mandela stage show in 1991, Beenie man’s career has been splintered with controversy. Unlike his immediate counterpart, Bounti Killa, The self proclaimed King of the Dancehall has kept his career buoyant during rough times...

Equal Rights: Reggae and Social Change

Thanks to Alesh Houdek's Critical Miami, I read about this traveling exhibition that tells the story of 30 years of Jamaican art, music, and social change. If you go, you'll get schooled in raggae consciousness,...

Where's the Marley music?

The 1999 World Cup fireworks were something of a damp squib, but I'm sure the Caribbean authorities are busy preparing what should be a markedly better opening ceremony next March.

Top 10 Dance Alone Songs

I'll have you know, I am quite the dancer..but, no one really knows that. Because, like a lot of us, I dance when no one is around to laugh at me and my silly dance moves. I know there are others out there like me..So, here is my Top 10 Dance Alone Songs to let out the inner...

Rocky Dawuni Wakes The World

By Jeniffer Zimmerman on January 25, 2006 "I believe in this era the government is not in the hands of politicians, it’s in the hands of musicians.” - Rocky Dawuni Rocky Dawuni’s conscious message is...

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