If you’ve ever had the privilege of witnessing Sierra Marin live, you know it’s more than a performance—it’s a transformative experience. As a live looping multi-instrumentalist, Sierra masterfully layers beatboxing, guitar, keys, and vocals in real time, crafting intricate, genre-blending soundscapes that… Read More
Moon Taxi has recently signed with reggae powerhouse Ineffable Records for their next full-length album, which is due early Summer 2025. The band landed with their new label partner after guitarist and producer Spencer Thomson found success in the reggae space over the last several… Read More
“I don’t want to be a pale imitation of the music from Jamaica I love so deeply, and I will forever be the student of it. I will never graduate from this school. I have not experienced the struggle that this music was born from first hand.…… Read More
Nearlin “Lynn” Taitt was born on June 22, 1934 in San Fernando, Trinidad. When he was eight years old, he and his four brothers started a steel pan band called Seabees, the name taken after the classic John Wayne film, The Fighting Seabees.… Read More
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What were most of us doing at the age of ten? I know I wasn’t doing anything too impressive.
In 2021, when Kailash Brumwell was ten, he was already making big moves in the reggae scene. He first made a name for himself by posting masterful covers… Read More
On nā kumu akua a pau, I hānau ‘ia i ka pō, I ka lā hiki kū, Ea ke kai mai.
At the 3-minute mark of Hawiian reggae band Cherreh Strawberry’s crucial new single, “Wave of Resistance,” the instrumentation drops out and the above lyrical passage is… Read More
On a Saturday evening back in late October, I made my way to Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn for a much-anticipated reggae show featuring The Bandulus and Uzimon. For those unfamiliar, Uzimon is a Bermuda-born, Brooklyn-based international reggae superstar specializing in dancehall, rub-a-dub and rocksteady known to kill men with lyrical bullets,… Read More
Nobody will deny that Sublime has been the most influential artist within the reggae rock scene and the most notorious beyond it, selling over 20 million records worldwide. Similar to the Grateful Dead, their oeuvre includes not only their music but their beloved artwork, which, over the years,… Read More
