Here’s one more reason to love Black History Month: It coincides with Reggae Month, a global celebration of the music and culture deemed an “an intangible cultural heritage” by UNESCO. In 2008, ...
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From Jamaica, to the Bronx, to countries around the world, one man has made reggae music his life out of a studio in the borough. Lloyd “Bullwackie” Barnes has lived through the evolution of Jamaican ...
Clive Chin probably should have expected a little bit of turbulence when he caught a flight from Kingston Jamaica to New York City with Peter Tosh as his traveling companion. The weather wasn’t a ...
Back in spring we told you about Heartbeat Record's repackaging of classic Studio One discs -- some of which were reissues to begin with -- and we're happy to see that the discs continue to flow. Back ...
With its roots in Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd's Downbeat soundsystem, Studio One was unrivalled in Jamaica as the engine room for the emergent sound of reggae. All accounts of its heyday in the ...
Patricia Chin is grateful for spring. When we connect by phone, Miss Pat—as she’s known professionally_is peacefully enjoying a bright and sunny New York afternoon, embracing the warmer weather—and ...
Producer and performer who worked with Bob Marley and pioneered both dub and roots reggae styles dies in hospital in Jamaica Obituary: one of Jamaica’s finest and most unpredictable musicians Lee ...
Jamaica’s failing economy in the ’70s meant recycling was a part of everyday life, so it followed that, with studio time and recording tape expensive, producers like Lee Perry and King Tubby began ...
From Jamaica, to the Bronx, to countries around the world, one man has made reggae music his life out of a studio in the borough. Lloyd “Bullwackie” Barnes has lived through the evolution of Jamaican ...