Artistes not ‘compassionate’ to the act - Reggae artistes want clauses changed

While it has been reported that reggae stars, Beenie Man, Sizzla and Capleton have all signed the Reggae Compassionate Act, which renounces homophobia and violence against lesbians and gays, other artistes have shown no compassion for the act, as they say it is not […]

Ex-Beatle recruits Sizzla, Lady Saw, Cherine Anderson for remix
Former Beatle Paul McCartney has crossed over into dancehall with the release of a single on the heels of his new album, Memory Almost Full. The remix single, Nod Your Head, is produced by Sly and Robbie and features Sizzla, Lady Saw and Cherine Anderson.

Islands create lures for the passport-weary
New regulations that went into effect in January made passports mandatory for air travel to Mexico, Canada, the Caribbean and Bermuda. Suddenly, U.S. travelers were in a mad scramble for the document, which created such a backlog of applications (now estimated at just under 3 million) that the federal government […]

Jamaican ghetto upholds Marley legacy

These days, people in Trenchtown, a gritty, violence-wracked district of Kingston, don’t gather around logwood fires, sup on communal broth and sing songs any longer. Life has moved on in Bob Marley country. But 26 years after the death of the reggae superstar, Trenchtown, which gave birth to reggae music and […]

The Skatalites | On The Right Track

A Catholic school for wayward boys run by the Sisters of Mercy would not be the first place coming to most people’s minds as the birthplace of Reggae and Ska music. But in one of those mysterious quirks of fate the Universe delights in, if it hadn’t been for […]