Ukulele star to play at music museum
At 15, Hawaiian Brittni Paiva secured her place on the leading edge of a global groundswell in renewed popularity for the ukulele by adapting it from Island music to classical, jazz, world beat, pop,...
View ArticleUB40 announce summer arena dates
Reggae stars UB40 have announced a series of UK arena dates for June 2013 and a new studio album, 'Getting Over The Storm', which will be released later this year on Universal/Virgin Records.
View ArticleCoppola film a legacy maker of paranoid-thriller genre
Paranoia was very popular in the 1970s. Sure, a good thriller has been the bread and butter of filmmakers since the nickelodeon, but the 1970s were a golden age of great paranoid and conspiracy-theory...
View ArticleVegas jams airwaves at Silk's Street bash
Ugandans love dancehall music, so whoever hatched the idea of bringing in Jamaican veteran Mr.
View ArticleBounty brings Rodney Price to new Western Consciousness venue
With 25 years of providing a quality entertainment package to reggae fans, the Western Consciousness team promises to deliver more of the same on Saturday at the Montego Bay Sports Complex to celebrate...
View ArticleShane Brown says Busy Signal split caused weight loss, denies baby mama affair
Nearly three weeks later, many in the Jamaican music industry are still trying to surmise the reasons why Dancehall/Reggae singer, Busy Signal ditched long-time manager and friend, Shane Brown...
View ArticleWords We Love And Words We Hate
What's so funny about peace, love and understanding? Nothing, but other words are hilarious! Ross Reynolds talks with language columnist Ben Zimmer about words we love, words we hate and words that...
View ArticleCancer patient raises funds for Dr Pearce life saving surgeries
Dr Celestine Ragoonanan, director West Shore Medical Ltd left, Dr Tim John of Southampton University Hospital NHS Trust and anesthetist Dr Peng Ewe perform liver surgery at West Shore Medical Ltd.
View ArticleReggae band are a hit round the world
From left, Pete Fitzsimmons , Erin Bardwell , Sandra Bell , Pete O'Driscoll and Eddie Frankis ONCE it was the exclusive product of the sunshine island of Jamaica but now a special brand of...
View ArticleReporter's Notebook published April 6, 2013
Free reggae event could have been here U.K. Music Hall of Famer and prominent reggae artist Pato Banton performed in Brookings on Thursday night, causing many fans to ask, "Why?" Before starting to...
View ArticleToots & the Maytals, Three Dog Night and Buddy Guy will electrify at The...
Three renowned artists who represent a variety of musical genres will be in concert at The Ridgefield Playhouse this weekend starting with Toots and the Maytals who will play their full electric...
View ArticleNearly five decades hasn't dented the love for The Skatalites' sound ...
Forty-nine years. Nearly five decades. Almost half a century. That's how much time has passed since The Skatalites first assembled boogie-woogie blues, jazz, Calypso, mento and African rhythms into one...
View Article7 Awesome Things You Forgot About From the Year 2003
It was a year when Ashton Kutcher and his trucker hats had the nation enthralled with Punk'd . But there was plenty of stuff from 2003 worth putting back on your Kindle, iPad and iPod.
View ArticleChristafari's 'Reggae Worship' Jumps to #1 on Billboard Reggae Albums Chart
Nearly nine months after it was first released, Gospel reggae pioneers Christafari have jumped to #1 on this week's Billboard Reggae Albums Chart with their latest album, Reggae Worship: A Roots Revival .
View ArticleExclusive Early Listen: John Brown's Body - Kings And Queens
JAMBASE EXCLUSIVE EARLY STREAM AMERICAN REGGAE PIONEERS JOHN BROWN'S BODY FULL-LENGTH ALBUM KINGS AND QUEENS AVAILABLE APRIL 16TH ON EASY STAR RECORDS As reggae music continues to reach new heights in...
View ArticleTortuga Music Festival: Best Places to Hang Out in Fort Lauderdale
The Tortuga Music Festival is hitting Fort Lauderdale beach this weekend. And with it comes an eclectic mix of performers, from country music stars like Kenny Chesney to modern hippies like Michael...
View ArticleBody acceptance: Changing the status quo
An intriguing article on body image appeared Apr. 8 in The Conversation , which addressed a point not often considered in the debate on how we can fix the very broken and superficially-oriented society...
View ArticlePlanet Earth for release on CD
PLANET Earth, the 1978 album by The Mighty Diamonds, will be released for the first time on compact disc this month.
View ArticleToots and the Maytals Personify Real Reggae Rockstardom
In the same way every teenage garage band must run through Zeppelin or Stones songs to truly be inducted into rock 'n' roll, every ska or reggae group has to learn some of the Toots and the Maytals...
View ArticleRock Hall Anniversary: Bob Marley and the Wailers' Catch a Fire
The term "catch a fire" has always been associated with Bob Marley. And it would begin forty years ago in an album.
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