Do You Know scores big for Mr Vegas Do You Know is the latest hit for Mr Vegas. Released on the Fi Wi Music label, the song has started its lap up the New York Reggae chart, where it debuted at number 24. On local shores, Do You Know is riding all major charts. Last [...]
Steel Representing Steel Pulse continue to fly the flag for ‘ostracised’ reggae music Thirty years into their ground-breaking career, leading reggae band Steel Pulse are set to return to their home city of Birmingham for a series of dates this autumn. No doubt figuring near the top of the playlists will be tracks from Steel [...]
Dennis Bovell: The dub master Dennis Bovell is back, promising some full-on reggae. He talks to Tim Cumming “Our school had a recording studio, in the old swimming pool. It was quite a thing for the Sixties. The building’s still there – it’s a listed building, used to be a hospital during the war, the [...]
Rita Marley disputes Barrett’s claim Bob Marley’s widow Rita said that the late reggae king did not consider bassist Aston ‘Family Man’ Barrett a member of his band The Wailers. As the hearing of Barrett’s multi-million dollar lawsuit against the Marleys and their record company continued in London’s High Court Tuesday, Mrs Marley reportedly told [...]
Music Remains in the Soul Slick, over-produced pop tunes aimed at the No.1 spot are pretty much to be expected if you cast half an eye over the charts. But before the likes of Take That, Westlife or Blue or Busted, there was Musical Youth. When they hit the No.1 spot in September 1982, they [...]
Producer balances art and commerce Ansel Collins’ Double Barrel is one of those roots reggae staples that musicians and roots music lovers have no problem returning to again and again. Still in the biz, Collins is looking to put out a new album, composed of soul-stirring organ work and haunting vocal-free arrangements like Emperor Dessalines [...]
Beenie Man hunts Hit List for Mafia House Productions Rising deejay Hit List has been making a name for himself on the stage show circuit. His high energy performances and chart hit Please Stop the Killing (currently riding all major local charts) haven’t gone unnoticed. Reports are that dancehall kingpin Beenie Man has been hunting [...]
Trials of a Hasidic Rapper Music fans seem thrilled with Chabad-Lubavitch singing sensation Matisyahu; his new album, “Youth,” debuted at number four on the Billboard 200. Critics, on the other hand, are a tough bunch: Some complain that he’s not black, while others say he has betrayed his Jewish ideals. On the day after his [...]
Montserrat’s Kulcha does reggae too Caribbean musician Kulcha Don is dispelling the myth that only Jamaican, Puerto Rican or Bajan-bred artists can create the ubiquitous dancehall and reggaeton sounds that blare these days from car and home sound systems. But Kulcha Don, born Reinford Gibbons on the small island of Montserrat, is breaking such stereotypes [...]
JASMINE’S JUICE I ended the week at Damian Marley’s historical show at Brixton Academy which was a real party, but not as heavy as the after party organised by Radio 1Xtra at Mayfair Club Isis where we danced with Damian and his crew, as well as Fat Joe (fresh from his new job as Pimp [...]