uncarved.org blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
I managed to pick this wicked LP up for a mere fiver in an all too rare trip to an actual record shop last week. Which shop? Ha! I’m not telling you that, are you mental? Anyway - it's outstanding mid-80s business, George Phang production, Sly and Robbie, Willi Lindo, all crew doing-over hard versions of [...]
Communications (Free subscription) | yesterday
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The Local (Free subscription) | yesterday
Michael Jackson and the owners of the rights to the music of Bob Marley are planning to sue the founders of file sharing website The Pirate Bay.
Nice Up (Free subscription) | yesterday
Following Buju Banton's call for other artistes to clean up their music, some have answered the challenge and are in agreement that some change in lyrics need to take place.
Nice Up (Free subscription) | yesterday
Lady Saw turns up for her interview with Splash in a cutesy, little-girl-looking sunflower yellow top, complete with ruffles on the sleeve, form-fitting pants, a sleek bob and an attitude that just charms you into totally forgetting the purpose of her visit - she wasn't here for 'girl talk', she was actually here for work.
Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | yesterday
The warm weather finally looks as if it is here to stay. So here's a little reggae to celebrate. Bob Marley Richie Spice Matisyahu
Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
We all love My Fair Lady, but although you sit through Peter Hall's exquisite production of the source play, Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, waiting for the tunes to turn up, there is no questioning the fact that you are witnessing a dramatic masterpiece...
Daily Dreamtime (Free subscription) | yesterday
Don Drummond Requiem at Dance Crasher. A 1969 JBC Radio Broadcast by Dermot Hussey on the occasion of DD's death at Bellevue Sanitarium. A proper audio file is HERE . Thank you, DMc. http://dancecrasher.podomatic.com/enclosure/2008-05-08T14_57_16-07_00.MP3
Nice Up (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Despite having made a big deal out of the downturn in Jamaican vinyl production over the past few months, the fact remains that reggae continues to produce music at a pace that, although somewhat diminished by its own uncommonly high standards, would still be seen as furious by any other genre.
with comb & razor (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
When I picked up this album in a Lagos market about eight years ago, I was motivated less by any curiosity about the music it contained than I was by my interest in vintage women's fashion and glamour photography. Fortuitously, when I got the LP back home I found that its pleasures extended beyond just the resplendently arrayed beauties pictured on its cover; it was, in fact, a rather solid record...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
At Lola's South City Bakery, the greeting is as comforting as the food.
Smuggled Sounds (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
For more than 30 years, Ska survives, regenerates,outfachions, Headlines again, implying rockeurs, followers of reggae, of dub, the punks… Skatalites, they, are always there, escaping the influence of time. Lead by a little insane trombonist that was Don Drummond, the group gave birth to this mélodioux and rich Ska which tainted with various musical inspirations, mixture of R& B, African rastafaris...
Nice Up (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Jamaica is an island full of talented people. Two such people are David Hayle and Jordan McClure who have formed their record label called, Chimney Records.
Nice Up (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
After making a name as one of the isalnd's most promising singers on the blossoming Jamaican music scene in the early sixties, Denzil Dennis set off across the Atlantic for a new life in Britain.
Nice Up (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Red Rat (real name Wallace Wilson) stormed the charts and created quite a buzz in the dance halls around the globe when he emerged on the scene in 1996.
