Rastas drop on All the troubles of the world, let a lone a nation, could not keep the reggae faithful away from the FMF Dome on Monday night. Fronted by Bob Marley and the Wailers lead guitrarist, Junior Marvin and Peter Tosh-bassist Fully Fullwood, the Tosh Meets Marley tour brought the pioneers of the ‘one-drop’ [...]
‘Rocking’ it ‘Well’ with Jovi ‘Rebel Love Goddess’ are the words that rising sensation, Jovi Rockwell, uses to describe herself. In a recent interview with TEENage, the 23-year-old songstress admits that she is proud to be different from every other artiste out there, in her quest for stardom.
Marley’s dad’s songs draw biggest cheers It has to be tough to be Ziggy Marley. First off, Marley’s still getting back on his feet after saying goodbye to his family back-up band the Melody Makers a few years ago. And while hitting the road with a set of mostly new musicians can be challenging enough, [...]
Honouring a ‘reel’ Jamaican legend In the summer of 1973, Lennie Little-White was a film student at the Ryerson Polytechnic University in Canada, when he went to a theatre at Danforth Street to see a movie named The Harder They Come. What he saw further fuelled his ambition to become a film-maker. “The lines were [...]
Island girl Rihanna continues her climb to the top There’s nothing like the warm spirit of the Caribbean to re-energise a dry, stale season of the same old song and dance. And there couldn’t be a better time than now for Barbados-born singer Rihanna to break into an industry that is eager to celebrate the [...]
Striking solo debut by Stephen Marley Each week, dozens of CDs turn up with uninteresting titles and even less engaging artistes. That changed with the arrival of Stephen Marley’s as yet unreleased Mind Control. Stephen Marley, the artiste, seems to have been around for eternity and has proved himself to be among the best – [...]
Flashpoint opens today There will no doubt be a reflective, if not sombre mood pervading at the Caves in Negril as the Flashpoint Film Festival opens today. News that Jamaican film pioneer and director of the classic The Harder They Come, Perry Henzell died yesterday will no doubt hit hard, and will be more poignant [...]
Tonight’s Top Stop: Bambu Station at Strathmore Bambu Station’s Roots are in the Virgin Islands, and its music’s heart is from Jamaica, but bandleader Jalani Horton is a longtime D.C. resident. Horton’s group is now in its 10th year of making roots reggae with a social conscious, strongly influenced by Steel Pulse and the Wailers. [...]
Ziggy Marley continues a tradition of upbeat pop-reggae Ziggy Marley remembers his father, the late reggae legend Bob Marley, sharing his work with the whole family. “When he’d write his songs, he’d call out to the kids,” Marley says. ” ‘Come sing!’ We’d sit around and sing with him. That was his writing process: He [...]
Trinity Criss ready to explode Trinity (three in one) Criss is ready to explode on the entertainment scene. Already there are a lot of people who have got some sunshine in their lives. The deejay has just concluded a tour with the likes of Beenie Man, Tanto Metro and Devonte backed by the Ruff Kut [...]