Roots reggae at root level

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 rap-game’s beloved producers and pro-tools rigs-these traditions promise to dirty the dance floors of Monk’s subterranean terra firma as Jamaican fore-bearers, The Melodians take stage this evening.

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