At its purest core, holiday season is a time to gather with family and friends. This makes it a perfect time to release the single, “Stylee,” a special collaboration between father and son.
What’s that, you ask? A father and son collaboration on a reggae track?… Read More… Read More
True crime aficionados have probably seen an Investigation Discovery (I.D.) network show called Evil Lives Here. This popular show has aired 154 episodes throughout sixteen seasons over the past nine years, telling harrowing tales of people who shared their lives with loved ones who gradually became murderers.… 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
This collection of dubs is respectful to the larger traditions of dub reggae, and it offers more than just season-specific tracks. You’re as likely to find yourself taking a listen any month of the year as you are this October. Give yourself a treat; hear some of this haunting… Read More
In early February, San Diego progressive reggae band, Tribal Seeds, released their fifth album, Ancient Blood. It had been ten years since the group had last released a full-length LP, but with a whopping 17 tracks clocking in at 73 minutes, the band has certainly made it worth… 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
Win a copy of Wayne Smith’s “Youthman Skanking” LP, courtesy of VP Records. The debut album from Wayne Smith, the voice of dancehall’s pivotal transitional recording, “Under Mi Sleng Teng.” Enter below!
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The early 1980s were the pinnacle of the ‘youthman’ style of… 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
