Rebelmix launches Black Chiney’s Drumline rhythm

Rebelmix Inc, the Caribbean’s leading digital distributor of music and video, has released Black Chiney Presents Drumline Riddim & Timeline Riddim, the latest dancehall album from Miami-based Dwayne ‘Supa Dups’ Chin-Quee’s Black Chiney production house/sound system. Drumline, Black Chiney’s third rhythm production, is said to be already stirring up controversy […]

Soca Warrior

To some who are unfamiliar with Caribbean culture, reggae might seem to be the dominant form of music in that region. It’s easily the most popular style that matriculates out to the States, and with the long list of reggae luminaries in Jamaica at any given time, there’s no fault in assuming that reggae […]

17 years of ‘real’ jazz

After 17 years, the Ocho Rios Jazz Festival continues to create history with stellar performances and a touch of the past. The sounds of instruments galore will run from Sunday to Sunday, from the opening day on June 10 at Morgan’s Harbour Hotel, Port Royal, to the closing Father’s Day Jazz […]

Reggae festival fails to live up to its name

Given the number of headline-making controversial artists on the bill, what was surprising about Sunday’s Best of the Best reggae concert at Miami’s Bicentennial Park were the artists who didn’t cross lines of decency and hate speech. Akon, the Senegalese singer whose salacious on-stage antics with a […]

Caribbean trips surprisingly cheap

Would you ever have believed that the Caribbean would become the cheap area in which to vacation and Europe the costlier place? With European currencies surging almost daily against the U.S. dollar, hiking the price of rooms and meals, cost-conscious Americans are flocking to a handful of tropical islands costing less than […]