Sadiki signs with Solar Entertainment

Singer/songwriter/producer Henry Buckley, Jr aka Sadiki has signed a one year non-exclusive booking agreement with Solar Entertainment.

Orthodox Jew gives beliefs a reggae beat

To most Americans, Jewish music means klezmer or Fiddler on the Roof, but two Arizona school chums and their Hasidic beatboxing protege are changing that.

“There’s always been Jewish music. It’s just most of it hasn’t been very good,” says Matisyahu, the self-proclaimed “Hasidic Reggae Superstar,” who performs Saturday at Revolution in Fort Lauderdale.

Dance All Rock 2005

Promoter Barrington Levy promises clean show with positive vibes

Veteran Jamaican entertainer Barrington Levy, on Wednesday launched his 2005 ‘Dance All Rock’ stage show at Weekenz Bistro and Bar, with a promise that this year’s show will be a ‘clean show filled with positive vibes’.

Shaggy’s latest continues hit streak

On “Clothes Drop,” Shaggy’s sixth major label release, the man who claimed “It Wasn’t Me” while searching for his “Angel” is poised to give listeners some good reasons to boogie down.

In the mid-90s, the Jamaican-born, Brooklyn-based reggae singer (born Orville Burrell) quickly became a household name for his pop-friendly dancehall jams like “Boombastic,” garnering chart success stateside and internationally.

Reggae Music on the Rise in Uganda

If you thought that the 1998 Lucky Dube show that sold out in Namboole Stadium was the best thing that ever happened on Uganda’s reggae scene, then you should visit one of the popular clubs in town. You will find crowds swaying to the buzz of the soft Caribbean coconut beats. It is the sound of reggae music, swaying the Ugandan souls.

Stars ‘big up’ patrons

Performers at the Caribbean Rising event on Sunday night at the James Bond Beach, St Mary, were in awe of the sheer determination of fans, as they stood in the mud and heavy rains from Tropical Storm Wilma to see them perform.

“Bway, dem brave … Is a brave set of people mi jus perform in front of, that’s why mi afi love mi Jamaican fans,” Reggae icon, Jimmy Cliff told THE STAR.

Ice Breaker rhythm chills in the record shops

The Renaissance label’s most ambitious project to date is the Ice Breaker rhythm. Produced by Delano Thomas, the Ice Breaker rhythm which has been making noise on radio and in the dancehall for a few months now is the follow-up to the label’s Stepz rhythm which spawned hits last year with Capleton’s Or Wah, Assassin’s Idiot Ting Dat and Elephant Man’s Pakistan among others.

Hartford Advocate: A Dose of Dub

Brooklyn´s Jamaican doctor of dub prescribes a double dose: the re-release ofInna City Pressure and the new release Patterns of War

There’s little as dull in a music review as a description of the reviewer’s infatuation with a disc (“never leaves the player,” “think of it when I’m making coffee, when ruminating, as I often do, on how the plaster dried funny in the hallway,” etc., etc.). So look — it’s not that I have an infatuation with Dr. Israel’s Inna City Pressure . It’s more of an addiction.

New York reggae band skanks to a unique beat

John Brown’s Body is the greatest reggae band you’ve never heard of. No, they aren’t Rastafarians. Jamaica isn’t home — upstate New York is. And most of the eight band members are white guys you’d never expect to see at a reggae show, let alone performing on stage.

But if you close your eyes and listen to the riddims they’ve released over the past decade, it’s easy to forget those little details and just skank along. And unlike most Jawaiian offerings here, all of John Brown’s Body’s music is original material.

The Story of Reggae and UK Dance

Without reggae and how it does things, it’s unlikely the UK soul and dance music scene would have developed in the way that it has. With Jamaicans, for a long time making up half the total numbers of immigrants to the UK from the Caribbean, that island’s culture was always going to have a massive effect on how black culture shaped itself in Britain.