It may only be the first week of March, but if Break of Day, the recently released LP from California-based Looking East is any indication, 2026 promises to be a great year for reggae music.
Consisting of only two members, singer Drew Gonzales and producer and multi-instrumentalist Daniel Kearney who… Read More
New York’s IRIEspect, who fuse reggae with rock, hip-hop and Latin American flavors, have taken a big leap forward with their Lost in Time EP released in this past December.
This hard-working band from Long Island has been garnering… Read More
We’ve all known at least one: bands that have been great from the get-go, but for some reason haven’t quite hit that critical mass that other similarly talented acts managed to. Well, The Irie have been working their butts off and churning out killer tunes the past… Read More
Cycles, the latest LP from northern Florida’s The Ellameno Beat, is a viiibe. This low-key collection of mostly lovers rock songs released this past summer intriguingly blends blissful, dreamy feels with an understated darker element, evoking an ambience of what… Read More
Aaron Wolf has been tearing it up. His blend of reggae, hip hop and folk underpins lyrics rooted in relentless possibility and endless possibilities. Unsurprisingly, that winning combination has struck a chord with audiences across the nation, culminating most recently in a spot… Read More
If I told you to rewind the clock five years, where would you be? Realistically, most of us were locked in our homes, watching blue summer skies smear into a palette of wispy autumn clouds as time dissolved into a blur of redundant mundanity.… Read… Read More
Here’s a lil sump’n y’all should know about me—I’m a born and raised Trini (Trinidad and Tobago, for the nationality-nickname-challenged). That would be the beautiful twin-island republic that birthed calypso, steelpan and soca. So while I love reggae with a passion, those other sounds are in my… Read More
Given that reggae music emerged out of poverty and desperation among the common people of Jamaica as a unifying voice that nurtured hope and provided cathartic resistance to the oppressive powers, one might think that reggae fans would largely object to the regressive and restrictive policies of… Read More
