Plug pulled on Third World At least 400 locals can consider themselves lucky in having the opportunity to witness a world-class show by reggae ambassadors Third World on Friday night at Churchill Park, Lautoka. Promoter Yusuf “Max” Khan pulled the plug on a second show scheduled for Suva last night ù admitting regret at having [...]
Freddie McGregor believes reggae suffers from abundance of overnight celebrities FREDDIE McGregor is a man who always speaks the truth as he sees it. His sentiments may not always be favourable among everyone in the reggae fraternity, but McGregor isn’t afraid to speak his mind. And frankly, with a career that has spanned more than [...]
Man killed at Supa Hype’s studio following Gyptian-DJ Frass argument Tragedy took hold of Prominent Dancehall producer, Steven “Supa Hype” Davis’ studio on Monday after a man was reportedly killed following an argument that developed between Dancehall/Reggae superstar, Gyptian & veteran Dancehall producer, DJ Frass. Reportedly, Gyptian & DJ Frass were discussing a track that [...]
Toots and The Maytals – Live At O2 Academy Brixton Ska and roots reggae veterans Toots and the Maytals played a lively gig at o2 Academy Brixton on Friday as they drew closer towards the end of their 50th Anniversary tour. Widely regarded as at the forefront of Jamaican music, Toots and the Maytals cemented [...]
Is Reggae Music On the Decline? Over the years sales of Jamaican reggae music have been lagging in areas considered to be reggae-friendly like the USA, Britain, Japan, Europe South Africa and Kenya and this genre has found new devotees in reggae-mad Zimbabwe as evidenced by the recent concerts of Sizzla, Sean Paul, Beenie Man, [...]
On homes and real estate: Co-signer of loan surprised Q. I am the co-borrower on an owner-financed property. I recently found out the mortgage bill was not being paid when I received a summons to court. I never received anything in the mail — no phone calls, nothing. They sent the contact only to the [...]
Jah Cure dropped from MOBO Awards due to past convictions Prominent Reggae singer, Siccature Alcock, more popularly known as Jah Cure has been removed from the Music of Black Origin (MOBO) Awards’ list of contenders for the Best Reggae Act award due to prior convictions. United Kingdom newspaper, The Sun confirmed that Jah Cure was [...]
Penetrating from outside Whether fact or fiction, there is the perception that unless you connect on home soil as a dancehall/reggae artiste, you have not made it . A lot of artistes who have made names for themselves in their neck of the woods are still going all out to carve their own niche on [...]
9/11 slows down ‘Half-Way Tree’ Damian ‘Jr Gong’ Marley’s 2005 Welcome to Jamrock has been so successful that, to some extent, it has eclipsed the success of his 2001 album Half-Way Tree. That album, which had Marley narrating to position himself at the mid-point of Jamaican society, not only sold gold (over 500,000 copies) worldwide, [...]
Dawn Penn – Count Down to Outlook Festival Right in the middle of ska and rubbing shoulders ever so briefly with reggae, rocksteady was briefly the prominent listen to genre of the mid-sixties over in the Caribbean. Dawn Penn’s smash hit ‘You Don’t Love Me (No, No, No)’ was one of the most successful anthems [...]