Rita Marley calls for Gov’t to pay greater attention to music business
Montego Bay, St. James – Rita Marley, wife of music legend, Bob Marley, yesterday said it was about time that the Government streamlined Reggae music so that lyrical content could be monitored and royalty from the music would flow back to the artists and ultimately into the country’s coffers.
New Caribbean dance craze worries parents in Grenada
The woman in a flounced white micro-mini and green glitter tube top writhed to a dance-hall beat throbbing through the Q-West nightclub. She gyrated in a motion that sent her skirt riding high.
Throughout the club, sporadically lighted by the flash of a camera or strobe light, barely clad young women danced themselves into a frenzy of carnal excess.
At a crossroads of obscurity and nowhere, this rustic seaport, scented by nutmeg, diesel, and decomposing fish, seemed an unlikely venue for the most controversial new dance craze in the Caribbean.
When many think of rock music, images of head bangers in white face powder, eyes lined in black and reddened lips puckered, spring to mind.
That extreme persona may soon be joined by that of a fashionable Jamaican bopping to rock, as more and more reggae and dancehall acts seem to be moving toward a fusion with the guitar-heavy beat.
The Canadian reggae scene is about to get more notice.
Niagara College student, Brad Weiss, 21, of Stoney Creek is producing a documentary on the development of the reggae scene with director Alex Peers, also from Niagara College.
Reggae is Mr. Peers’ passion and he and Mr. Weiss decided to make a documentary when they discovered there was no other documentation about it.
One love. One heart. One perfect day
As the 25th anniversary of Bob Marley’s death nears, memories of seeing the supernatural legend in concert remain powerful
Gather ’round, kids. I’m going to tell you about the time I saw a legend, a natural mystic, in the flesh. In the two and a half decades since his passing, Bob Marley has not only become the most internationally popular black musician of all time, but more a symbol of freedom, enlightenment and love than mortal man. But on May 6, 1979, he was right there in front of me, on the stage, his eyes closed and those words flowing from his soul. “One good thing about music,” sang this Dylan/Lennon in dreadlocks, “when it hits, you feel no pain.”
During a break in a Tokyo recording session, Rico Rodriguez puts down his trombone to lark around on the roof with the teenage members of Oreskaband, the all-girl ska band he’s been working with. That, at 72 years old, he is now old enough to be their grandfather doesn’t even faze him.
“It was good to play among young people. You can feel the vibes from dem,” he says, with a strong Jamaican accent. “The energy deh give to the music is great.”
During a break in a Tokyo recording session, Rico Rodriguez puts down his trombone to lark around on the roof with the teenage members of Oreskaband, the all-girl ska band he’s been working with. That, at 72 years old, he is now old enough to be their grandfather doesn’t even faze him.
“It was good to play among young people. You can feel the vibes from dem,” he says, with a strong Jamaican accent. “The energy deh give to the music is great.”
During a break in a Tokyo recording session, Rico Rodriguez puts down his trombone to lark around on the roof with the teenage members of Oreskaband, the all-girl ska band he’s been working with. That, at 72 years old, he is now old enough to be their grandfather doesn’t even faze him.
“It was good to play among young people. You can feel the vibes from dem,” he says, with a strong Jamaican accent. “The energy deh give to the music is great.”
The man who gave reggae its name brings back the Maytals.
The career of Frederick “Toots” Hibbert predates reggae — in fact, he’s the guy most often credited with naming the genre. But the music’s reigning patriarch isn’t a museum piece just yet. Last year’s True Love — an album that found the 60-year-old Hibbert and an all-star cast of supporters tackling his classics — won a Grammy, and he opened some shows for his old friends the Rolling Stones on one of 2005′s biggest tours.
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 radio hits like “Pon de Replay,†“If It’s Lovin’ That You Want,†and “Let Me.†Sadly, Rihanna’s new single, “S.O.S.,†exemplifies the type of under-produced music on Girl Like Me.
