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 [...]
Nirvana gets a Reggae flavour Released to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Nirvana’s Nevermind, Battle For Seattle is a reggae take on 10 of the band’s classic tracks. As with previous mope-meets-dope experiments such as Dub Side Of The Moon and Radiodread, it seems destined to lie alongside plastic grinders, fire poi and vague [...]
Reggae Loves Country: A 50-Year Romance VP Records is the largest distributor of reggae music, and Warner Music Nashville is a preeminent country label. What could the two have in common? This month, a joint album — Reggae’s Gone Country. Picture this: You’re at a massive street dance in Kingston, Jamaica, and the speakers are [...]
Matisyahu keeps busy with touring & recording Staying busy on the road, Matisyahu will return to Massachusetts on Saturday for a show at Boarding House Park in downtown Lowell as part of the Lowell Summer Music Series.The Hasidic Jewish reggae star is currently touring behind his most recent release Live at Stubb’s, Vol. 2, the [...]
I-Octane, Khago & Teflon put differences aside, share stage at Capleton’s show Prominent Dancehall-Reggae singjays, I-Octane, Khago & Teflon all put their differences aside, at least for one night as they shared the stage at Capleton’s annual “St. Mary Mi Come From” event early Saturday morning. Capleton himself invited the three men on stage after [...]
Caribbean vibes flow through online radio It’s amazing how the visually impaired manage to accomplish their feats. Though they cannot see, most blind people have other over-compensating senses, and usually an over-zealous aspiration for success. But still, how are they able to run an Internet radio station? Caribbean Culture Vibes (CCV) streams live music online. [...]