Once-promising Rihanna makes us stop caring about a Girl Like her Before discussing the beastly new album by Rihanna, let’s reflect on her auspicious debut album, Music of the Sun. Though it did have a couple of garish tracks, Rihanna defined the album with reggae-inspired songs full of vim and vigor. This was apparent on [...]
Dance pon da riddim The Royal Peacock is dead. “Last night around this time, the place was packed,” says a baby-faced bartender while handing out Red Stripes and scooping up dead presidents. Shit. Looking around the barren nightclub, it’s hard to envision the room packed with dancing, gyrating, sweaty folks. Sure, there are a few [...]
Holt stirs up reggae lovers When a dapper crooner by the name of John Holt went onstage at the Wildey Gymnasium minutes after 2 a.m., he truly put the gold plating on Vintage Reggae Gold to lift sagging spirits and a few sleepy heads after a long night.
The missing ‘X’ factor After his debut single Plead My Cause, it seems certain that this man has the ‘X’ factor that some say is missing from reggae music. Junior X says he is here to pick up where Malcolm X left off. “The name is from Malcolm X. I don’t think that him did [...]
Hitz radio blasts off In a high-decibel function, and with several media personalities and entertainers present, Radio 92 officially became Hitz 92 FM on Thursday night at the Asylum nightclub. In addition to the station’s roster of DJs and sports personalities, other team members on hand included RJR Group Chairman Lester Spaulding, morning show host, [...]
Reggae Focus: Wayne Wonder Although dancehall Reggae deejays (rappers) must be lyrically tough, unleashing rapid-fire guns in the ghetto rhymes and inflated sexual boastings, dancehall singers can attain great popularity sensitively cooing about a new found love, melodically lamenting a love gone wrong and emotionally conveying other oh-so tender concerns. The sensual, honeyed vocals of [...]
Producer John John lands his first number one in four years Producer Lloyd ‘John John’ James Jr son of legendary record producer Lloyd ‘King Jammys’ James, has reasons to celebrate this week. His production of Beenie Man’s We Set the Trend on the Nookie rhythm, has taken over the number one spot on both the [...]
Burning questions If you lived in Santa Fe during the ’80s and early ’90s, you enjoyed the comfort of knowing that warmer weather brought with it a multitude of reggae concerts worth attending. If Reggae Sunsplash wasn’t blowing through town, then Jimmy Cliff or Peter Tosh was probably picking up the slack. Lately though, most [...]
Wayne Marshall speaks on fatherhood, Forgive Them Please By now you must have heard Wayne Marshall’s inspiring tune Forgive Them Please. Marshall says the song originated from a personal experience. “It was inspired by a very personal experience. It is a spiritually and emotionally charged song,” Marshall said on the weekend. Forgive Them Please speaks [...]
Ele brings the Jamaican bling Reggae dancehall’s Elephant Man will trample into Japan with a ton of Jamaican bling this week, showing audiences from Tokyo to Okinawa the evolutionary link joining the brashest strains of dancehall reggae and hip-hop. Plodding a course that leaves far more fearsome tracks than fellow Jamaican deejay Sean Paul, Elephant [...]