Dub, an era of Jamaican music history that still has the power to capture the hearts and minds of listeners over a half century later. It has sent researchers down the deep and dark rabbit holes of history and has captivated the thoughts of recording engineers… Read More
Blanc du Blanc, the uncategorizable dub outfit from Hopewell, NJ, have teamed up with Hopeton Brown, the prodigiously unparalleled master of sound famously known as Scientist. Together, they bring the world a summoning of galactic proportions which can only be earthly understood… Read More
Flying Vipers are a favorite amongst the Rootfire team. We first covered them when I interviewed brothers Marc and John Beaudette for a Vinyl Giveaway article with Rootfire raffling off three copies of their Cuttings LP in October 2020. It’s worth pointing out that the three… Read More
Reggae music has a long history of bringing music made popular in other genres into its fold. This practice dates all the way back to the 60s when Jamaican vocal groups covered popular American songs in a ska or rocksteady style.… Read More
These frigid and gloomy days of our Northeastern winter coupled with some absolute madness going down with this new U.S. presidential administration the past few weeks has had me feeling rather downtrodden and stressed (as intended by the powers that be.)… 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
Editor’s Note: At midnight last night, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad released a mini-EP on Easy Star Records titled Chants Dubbed and Remixed, which includes two mind-blowing dub remixes of their song, “Chants” featuring Clinton Fearon from their last studio LP, Love in Time.…
