Wailer co-hosts Trench Town rally
REGGAE star Bunny Wailer and the Rastafari Millennium Council are promoters of the fifth annual Trumpet Rally, which takes place tomorrow at Trench Town Culture Park.
View ArticleDoobies, Costello to front festival
ENDURING BAND: The Doobie Brothers, from left, Tom Johnston, Tom Pia, Marc Russo, Pat Simmons, Ed Toth, John Cowan, John McFee and Guy Allison in Queenstown.
View ArticleIs it bonjour or hola? These apps will help you translate languages wherever...
You don't have to jet off to foreign climes to flex your language skills. According to the Census Bureau there are over 300 languages spoken in the US today.
View ArticleSAGE Partners with Academic News Site The Conversation
SAGE announced an exciting new partnership with a major online news website, The Conversation, to support access to high quality academic research within the mainstream media.
View ArticleCham, Saw, Pinchers for Ultimate Pepperseed tonight
One year ago, PULS8 launched a Wednesday night retro party called Pepperseed. This November marks Pepperseed's first anniversary, which kicked off on the 13th with a live performance by the Energy God...
View ArticleAmsterdam on JamBase
The Wailers injected an old-school flavor into the 26th annual High Times Cannabis Cup this week in Amsterdam with their invite-only performance at The Melkweg in the city's picturesque Leidseplein area.
View ArticleAlbum Review: Passafire 'Vines'
If Island Records' complete late-'60s and early-'70s catalog was thrown into a blender-including not only the reggae of Bob Marley & The Wailers and The Heptones, but the progressive rock of...
View ArticleLeroy Sibbles - best-known Heptones member
Leroy Sibbles is perhaps the best-known member of the very popular Jamaican vocal trio of the 1960s - The Heptones.
View ArticleVenturing out into Jamaica
Unless you're old enough to remember when Harry Belafonte was selling millions of calypso records, visiting Jamaica, for most leisure travelers, has come to mean three things: 2. Being advised by timid...
View ArticleTop 5 things to do in Kalamazoo this week: Kirill Gerstein, Matisyahu and...
Farmers Alley Theatre will celebrate the music of composer Irving Berlin as it continues its Cabaret Series with "I Love A Piano."
View ArticleBunji, Machel vie for Soul Train Awards
Trinidadian soca stars Bunji Garlin and Machel Montano are in the running for Best International Performance at the Soul Train Awards.
View ArticleMatisyahu beat boxes, lights menorah with Kalamazoo Jewish Community in...
Although his visit was a short one, Matisyahu delighted an intimate crowd by answering questions, signing autographs and beat boxing during a menorah lighting in Bronson Park Sunday.
View ArticleGetting Funky with the Effinays
The Fort Worth venue, Lola's on Sixth Street, recently played host to the funk /rock/reggae band- The Effinays.
View ArticleNetroots Radio Presents: "Jefferson's Phantom"
I'm Special Agent DJ Justice ; Radio Host and Program Director for Netroots Radio.com; and I'm manning the dials, spinning the discs, warbling the woofers, putting a slip in your hip and a trip to your...
View ArticleMelodians tribute for NY
ON December 14 when promoter Andrew Clarke stages his Ole Time Christmas event at Jamaica Performing Arts Center in Queens, New York City, he plans to recognise Tony Brevett, founding member of The...
View ArticleJennifer Siebel Newsom and Gavin Newsom to Discuss Marianne...
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ This Tuesday, Jennifer Siebel Newsom and Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom will sit down for a special conversation on gender equity, leadership and...
View ArticleHealth Check: Is Your Personal Music Player Doing You Damage?
This article was originally published at The Conversation . The publication contributed the article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights .
View ArticlePics In The Bin, Fridgecam and The Digital War on Waste
This article was originally published at The Conversation . The publication contributed the article to LiveScience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights .
View Article'Police & Thieves' Reggae Singer Junior...
Reggae singer Junior Murvin, whose signature song "Police and Thieves" became a hit on the British charts not long after it was covered by punk legends The Clash, died Monday at a hospital in Jamaica.
View ArticleReggae singer Junior Murvin dies in Jamaica
Son Keith Smith says the 67-year-old performer died at Port Antonio Hospital on Monday.
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