Roots reggae at root level
No matter how hard the schmaltz of Sean Paul’s club-bangers or the myriad black-lit Bob Marley posters adorning our nation’s dorm-room walls try to pull, Reggae’s roots burrow much deeper than America’s flash-pan pop culture. Burrowing deep into the rich soils of rhythm and melody-finely tuned amid loved ones, not the […]

Demand Outstrips Supply

Since signing an exclusive contract with one of the leading supermarket outlets in the UK, Keith Graham who secured a £50,000 deal and a 40 percent equity, on the BBC reality programme, The Dragon’s Den, says his product has been sold out across the country. The entrepreneur better known as Levi Roots, a […]

Beijing reggae club hoping for some Marley power

“It’s going to be very difficult to bring reggae to China, but this is a start.” Former IT engineer Robin Liao looks out from the terrace of ‘Together’, Beijing’s first reggae bar, at this unlikely setting for a rasta revolution. A man in his 70s stops his shuffling […]

Sweet and dandy at UWI J’ouvert

It was a night of sensational fun for many students last Friday night at ‘J’ouvert’, the Caribbean night’s edition, held at the Students’ Union, UWI, Mona. Wild dancing dominated the event as drunk, and tipsy patrons wined out the night to soca and a few dancehall and rap tunes before […]

Allison Hinds is ‘on a roll’
On the eve of her much anticipated performance at the Mas Camp for Bacchanal Jamaica’s - Friday Night Fete, she walks into the lobby of the Knutsford Court Hotel and has necks snapping, watching her every move. A man can be heard whispering, “Is that Allison Hinds?” Yes it is! […]