Busy Signal Steps Out in a big way
Nearly two years after his explosive single Step Out was released, dancehall toaster Busy Signal emerges with a focused album, also titled Step Out. The album doesn’t sacrifice Busy’s intensity as a deejay. It, however, sharpens his street credibility as a ‘voice’ for the ghetto youths.

Splicing Wars - Selectors cut and paste, artistes fume

Local sounds are faking artistes’ voices and selling the dubs for their own benefit. The practise of cutting and dubbing another person’s voice over a recording done by an artiste is called splicing and according to some artistes, this is a big problem often worthy of bigger […]

Turbulence’s Silly Girl creating waves

Silly Girl, the first single off Turbulence’s new album Ex-Girlfriend (Tads Records), has been creating quite a buzz. According to Turbulence, the song, which is currently making strides on the charts, wasn’t directed towards his former lover, singer Sasha.
“Silly Girl is my favourite song on the album. People say is Sasha […]

Reggae rebelution: For Jamaican singer-songwriter Tanya Stephens, politics is only half the battle

Tanya Stephens has already been a dancehall diva and a Swedish rock star. So on her extraordinary sixth album, the Jamaican singer-songwriter went for broke. Wearing a red beret and combat fatigues and singing movingly with the kind of sweeping vision that made […]

DVD Review: Classic Albums - Bob Marley And The Wailers, Catch A Fire

Early on in their relationship, someone asked Bob Marley if Island Records owner Chris Blackwell was his producer. Bob said “No Mon, he’s my translator”. While that was a good joke, because of Bob’s heavy accent, Bob might have been more accurate […]