“Triston Palma has been doing this for about forty years, he was recording reggae hits as a teen and is a longtime favorite of the guys in the band,” says Revival bassist Luis Medina of their occasional Jamaica-based collaborator. “He comes to San Diego about every two years and always packs the place.”

Palma and the band first crossed paths in 2012 when Revival opened his shows at Worldbeat Center and elsewhere.

After pairing the following year for area Tribute to the Legends bills, “At this point, Triston would call us directly and ask us to get ready, and it continued this way…Triston really enjoyed our enthusiasm for playing his music. Really, what we did was make it our own. It shows on our live performances. There’s a great energy that he likes…he only likes playing with us when he comes to this part of the world.”

via Revival brings Jamaican reggae star Triston Palma to O.B..

When a legendary reggae band tours with the hottest new reggae act on the touring circuit the result is a sweaty dance party with a lot of chucking going on. After touring for 40 years, Steel Pulse knows how to do it, and they also know how to seek out other talented musicians because Satsang was coming in hot. After an amazing Hawaii tour with many of their musical idols like Trevor Hall and Tubby Love and cleaning up at the Montana Music Awards, this duo has been turning heads ever since they started playing together about only a year ago.

via Satsang & Steel Pulse: Rocky Mtn Reggae Fever.

But who, now, in Yangon, remembers Jamaica’s Bob Marley?Saw Poe Kwar, that’s who.The long, twisted dreadlocks must be uncomfortable in this heat, but the heat seems not to trouble him.“If Myanmar people know me, it may be because I sing of peace. But what about my music?” he asked in a recent interview.

via Myanmar’s reggae king promotes peace and human rights.

Dancehall artiste Mr Vegas has teamed up with hip- hop star Pitbull for a remix of his single My Jam.The single is from Vegas’ Euphoria album which was released last year."We wanted it to be a happy song and we needed an artiste to take us to another level, so we sent a copy of the track to Pitbull’s team and they instantly jumped on the remix.

He recorded his part and sent back to us in Jamaica and we did the rest," Vegas told Splash.

via Vegas shares ‘Euphoria’ with Pitbull .

“Women are doing very well in calypso,” says former monarch, Karene Asche, acknowledging strides women have made in the traditionally male-dominated artform.

“The men ‘fraid we bad. They don’t always show it but you hear the little whispers,” she adds with a laugh.

Outside of social and political commentaries, Asche says female calypsonians are also competently depicting their messages through dress code and stage presentations. Asche, 29, is among four women appearing among the cast of 12 in tonight’s finals of the National Calypso Monarch competition at the Dimanche Gras show, Queen’s Park Savannah, Port-of-Spain.

via Woman is boss.

Singer Tony Anthony has been a fixture on the Canadian reggae scene for over 20 years. He is an elder statesman in a market that lacks sustained careers.

The St Catherine-born Anthony has lived in Toronto since 1992. He has earned a Juno Award (the Canadian Grammy) nomination and won Reggae Vocalist of the Year in his adopted country four times.

Last week, he told the Jamaica Observer that though there are still some glitches, Canadian reggae is on the up.

via ‘Reggae on the up’.

Not unlike his grandfather Bob Marley and father, Stephen Marley, Jo Mersa Marley’s music revolves around positive vibes, or what he likes to refer to as "conscious music."The 23-year-old started performing and touring with his father when he was about 3 or 4. Now a solo artist, Mersa Marley will perform his original reggae-pop songs, as heard on the 2014 EP “Comfortable” Saturday, Feb. 14, during the 9 Mile Music Festival in Miami. The 22nd annual reggae event’s lineup also includes his father, uncles Damian and Julian Marley, Capleton, Tanya Stephens and Future Prezidents. On Sunday, Mersa Marley also will perform at the Get Together, a more intimate concert taking place at the Stage, 170 NE 38th St., Miami and featuring his dad and Kabaka Pyramid, a producer and singer from Kingston, Jamaica.

via Jo Mersa Marley: Talking with Bob Marley’s grandson in advance of 9 Mile Music Festival.

Despite Jamaican reggae’s pro-cannabis stance over the past six decades, the plant remains illegal in the music’s birthplace.Jamaica’s reggae artists are unrivaled in their vociferous championing of marijuana usage and persistent rallying for its legalization.

A primary tenet of the island’s indigenous Rastafarian way of life, which is inextricably linked to the cultural identity of roots reggae, regards cannabis, or ganja, as a sacred herb; since the late 1960s Rastafarian artists have promoted ganja’s healing properties in their song lyrics, which has resulted in an organic decriminalization campaign summarized by the title track of the late, visionary Peter Tosh’s 1976 debut album Legalize It Columbia Records.

via Marijuana’s Relationship with Reggae and Its Future Prospects in Jamaica.

Returning to Nigeria, 22 years after his first visit, reggae music icon, Don Carlos, recounts intimate experiences with his Nigerian fans. Nseobong Okon-Ekong reports

Not customary with the character of entertainment star of his stature and fame, reggae music icon, Don Carlos, real name, Ervin Spencer, was alone in his hotel room in Lagos. He answered the door himself. Of course, he was familiar with the caller, Raheem Agoro, a radio presenter and promoter of reggae music who facilitated his visit to Nigeria. Carlos was the headline performer at the 18th edition of Felabration.

via DON CARLOS: REGGAE ICON’S LOVE FOR NIGERIA.

FOR over 30 years, Roger Steffens has earned a reputation as an authority on Bob Marley and the Wailers. The massive archives of Marley/reggae memorabilia at his Los Angeles home has attracted reggae’s elite and Hollywood A-listers like Leonardo DiCaprio.

But Steffens had a cache of slides under lock and key for almost 50 years. With the help of his children, they have been digitised, posted on Instagram and have become the subject of feature stories in Time and New Yorker magazines, and on CNN.

via All in the family.