Matisyahu strays too far from genre on new EP
It’s not that Matisyahu or his cast of bandmates are inherently bad musicians. In fact, that’s pretty far from the case. Matisyahu’s sometimes hard-to-find first album, Shake of the Dust…Arise, is notable for some truly novel moments and at representing a time in the Hasidic-Jewish reggae artist’s […]
Merritone closes 58th anniversary at The Deck
When Merritone Music was started in St. Thomas, approximately 14 miles from where Paul Bogle began his epic march to Spanish Town in 1865, Alexander Bustamante had been out of detention at Up Park Camp for nine years and it would be 14 years before Marcus Garvey’s body was […]
Day 3: Ari Up and Away
Most CMJ bands play indie and rock, but sprinkled throughout the week there is also some world flavor. At Santos Party House last night for the DubShot Records showcase, I saw three interesting and different bands— all playing variations on reggae music. First was the racially mixed Fear Nuttin Band, […]
Golden State lauds veteran reggae group Third World
In their 35 years as ‘Reggae Ambassadors’, Third World has travelled far and wide and much has been written about them.
However, when they played the 18th annual Jazz at Drew Festival, held at the Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles, California in early October, […]
Lucky Dube: Invocations of a reggae icon
One year after the gruesome murder of Lucky Dube, philosopher, poet, messenger, entertainer and lyricist, his eminent position and the vacuum created as a result of his death is yet to be filled in the world of reggae. It is unarguable that Dube secured a place among the truly […]
