Toots brings authentic sounds to Tahoe

Calling Toots Hibbert’s music old-school reggae would be an understatement.
He the inventor.
Toots and the Maytals 1968 song “Do the Reggay,” was the first time the word defining the style of music was used in a recording.

Jah Works just keeps going on

Keeping a band together for more than a decade is no easy feat - especially if the band is full time.
But for the past 15 years, the members of Baltimore reggae group Jah Works have made a living by grinding out gigs around the region and recording with other local […]

Is Jamaica losing reggae?

Few Jamaicans chart in Japan, US and Europe signalling, as pundits suggest, that international reggae doesn’t need Jamaica.
The charts in Japan, Germany, Switzerland and New Zealand, up to yesterday, had only one Jamaican-born artiste - Bob Marley - in the top ten. The US and France were also low at three and […]

Ky-Mani Marley gets personal in autobiography

Although he is the son of music royalty, Ky-Mani Marley says life has not always been a bed of roses. The 33-year-old singer/actor tells his story in Dear Dad, his autobiography to be released February 6.
Marley is best known for minor hit songs like Dear Dad and Warriors and roles […]

Beenie Man Dropped From Big Day Out

Jamaican dancehall MC Beenie Man has been dropped from the line-up of the Big Day Out Festival, which is due to begin touring Australia and New Zealand in January, after protests about homophobic lyrics penned by the performer.
Beenie Man, as we have reported before, has struggled to perform live […]