TOK wants nothing to do with Beenie Man

International dancehall group TOK says they will no longer support anything that has to do with Beenie Man, as the doc has disrespected them on more than one occasion.
The latest issue came about when Beenie Man failed to show up for ‘Bounce’, a stage show that was put […]

Sounding a Mosaic by Bedouin Soundclash
Sure, the Canadian band Bedouin Soundclash blends a myriad of different sounds and styles, but it doesn’t “clash” in the way that the band’s influences do, such as WashingtonD.C. veterans Bad Brains. Unlike Bedouin Soundclash, Bad Brains forces reggae into its aggressive punk, using reggae songs with refreshing breaks in […]

Rita Marley uses Tutu’s name in vain

Rita Marley, the widow of late reggae musician Bob Marley, has been falsely using the name of Archbishop Desmond Tutu to garner publicity for a series of concerts she hopes to hold in the country early next year to commemorate the birth of her husband.
The Africa Unite programme — […]

Remembering Peter Tosh

Fourteen years before the devastation in New York City, Jamaica, and indeed the world, suffered a loss, though clearly not of the same magnitude, when reggae revolutionary Peter Tosh was brutally murdered at his home in Barbican, Kingston by gunmen. Also killed on that fateful night, was Wilton ‘Doc’ Brown, a herbalist friend […]

Dancehall, the business edition

As the clampdown on expletives at stage shows continues, a long whispered argument has come to the fore, that when sponsors from ‘uptown’ came with the money, the music, which was originally the ‘downtown’ lifeline was never the same again. There were new rules for an old game.