Artisanal music producer Handcancel has released his latest album "Handcancel Presents Sampeloco" today. The album is a compilation featuring Rock, Rap, and Reggae by underground legends from Lawrence, MA to Sarasota, FL. A blazing cover of "Pleasure Victim" by Berlin is...
Hip-hop's heavyweights are gathering again for the 2009 edition of the Rock the Bells tour, with Nas, Common, and The Roots scheduled to headline the rap fest's proceedings. Other artists picked to play include a...
Article: Forget Reading, forget not finding your tent because this humdinger of a festival is sure to make you dance. It certainly made us! You won’t find herds of pale, badly tattooed BMTH fans here, instead you...
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Cezar Brumeanu, the producer and guiding force of the Montreal International Reggae Festival since its inception in 2004, has quit the organization. In a tersely worded statement from Brumeanu’s CB Productions, he...
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" Pioneer ska singer Lord Tanamo has lost his ability to speak and is now living in the Lincoln Place of Nursing Home, Toronto, Canada. The 74-year-old former vocalist of the Skatalites Band has had a stroke that has left him unable to speak for some time now. In an e-mail...
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Jamaican reggae artist Craig "Serani" Marsh - a member of the hit-making trio Daseca - was robbed early Monday at gunpoint in his Christiansted hotel room about an hour after his performance at the Crucian Christmas Festival Village, police said.Marsh was robbed by two...
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Launching 2009 in true ‘bad gyal’ style, Jamaican reggae artist Ce’Cile - a member of the Danger Zone camp - is proud to bring forward the special expanded digital release, Worth It, featuring two new bonus tracks in cooperation with Zojak World Wide, the leading...
After delivering his sophomore album “Unselfish” to critical acclaim and outselling some of the biggest names in Reggae for 2008, Jamaican Lovers Rocker Courtney John hits 2009 with a bang.With his new album “Made In Jamaica” now in the final phase of production,...
Singer Da’Ville currently has the number one download single in Japan, according to download site Reggae Zion. Ichiban, the title track from Da’Ville’s forthcoming album, has occupied the number one positionsince it was released on December 12 last year. Ichiban...
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It's a meet-up that, admittedly, came as a bit of a surprise, but ultimately makes a world of sense: Detroit retro-futurist funkmeister Joseph "Amp" Fiddler has joined forces with collaboration-loving riddim-machine Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare (better known as Sly and...
Director of the second annual Reggae Film Festival (RFF), Ministry of Information, Culture, Youth and Sports (MICYS) Consultant, Barbara Blake Hannah, has reported that the festival is currently generating a buzz of excitement among local and international film...
Kingston, Jamaica - Vincent Ford, a songwriter credited with composing the Bob Marley reggae classic "No Woman, No Cry," has died in Jamaica at 68 from complications of diabetes. He's also been credited with...
Set on the property of a renowned olde’ money leisure lounge, Rasta Rebels inaugural staging of Reggaelution, was for want of a better word, mild.An all inclusive event cuddled in an empty grassy lot on the...
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A "Make a Film in 24 Hours" competition will be one of a number of special activities at the second annual Reggae Film Festival (RFF) scheduled for February 23 - 27, 2009 at Emancipation Park in Kingston.The...
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Trancehall is the sound of 2008. It's not a scene, it's a global movement.Trancehall is the term that has been used to describe the recent slew of uptempo rhythms with trancey synths that has been coming out of...
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