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Buju, bye bye?
Buju, bye bye? Mark Anthony Myrie, aka Buju Banton, aka Gargamel, was last week remanded in Federal custody in Miami, Florida by Drug Enforcement Administration agents and charged by the US Attorney with conspiracy to possess, with intent to distri...
Buju’s online presence increases
Buju’s online presence increases Buju Banton’s arrest has not visibly increased his chart presence but his online presence has skyrocketed second to Bob Marley. Banton’s latest album Rasta Got Soul has not been among the biggest jumpers or dec...
Reggae rejects cocaine
Reggae rejects cocaine - on record- Drug use among performers surfaces in lyrics No matter the official classifications, in reggae and dancehall music marijuana is not a drug, and there are oodles of songs about the joys of using and supposed benefit...
Jamaican rides soca wave for T&T Carnival
Jamaican rides soca wave for T&T Carnival In February, 2009 he came to Trinidad to experience the season of soca and mas. Little did he know that he’d meet a rising soca star who would recognise his budding talent and a collaboration would em...
Kingston in Kingston
Kingston in Kingston It will be the first time that international reggae-influenced recording artiste Sean Kingston will be performing in Kingston, and by all indications he intends to make his premier in Jamaica’s capital one to remember. Wit...
Jamaica: Cool in the Caribbean
Jamaica: Cool in the Caribbean “No other island in the Caribbean is as beautiful or as productive,” said Grace Elmore from behind the bar at Richmond Hill Inn, a colonial lookout-cum-eyrie owned by her family since the 1960s. It rises hi...
Ele wants $5m to clash with Flippa
Ele wants $5m to clash with Flippa Elephant Man says he is willing to clash Flippa Mafia at Sting if promoter Isaiah Laing is willing to pay him $5 million. At the launch of Sting on Tuesday night, Laing said Elephant Man was running from a lyrical...
Jah Works just keeps going on
Jah Works just keeps going on Keeping a band together for more than a decade is no easy feat - especially if the band is full time. But for the past 15 years, the members of Baltimore reggae group Jah Works have made a living by grinding out gigs ar...
Is Jamaica losing reggae?
Is Jamaica losing reggae? Few Jamaicans chart in Japan, US and Europe signalling, as pundits suggest, that international reggae doesn’t need Jamaica. The charts in Japan, Germany, Switzerland and New Zealand, up to yesterday, had only one Jama...
Ky-Mani Marley gets personal in autobiography
Ky-Mani Marley gets personal in autobiography Although he is the son of music royalty, Ky-Mani Marley says life has not always been a bed of roses. The 33-year-old singer/actor tells his story in Dear Dad, his autobiography to be released February 6...
Beenie Man Dropped From Big Day Out
Beenie Man Dropped From Big Day Out Jamaican dancehall MC Beenie Man has been dropped from the line-up of the Big Day Out Festival, which is due to begin touring Australia and New Zealand in January, after protests about homophobic lyrics penned by ...
Dancehall dawn
Dancehall dawn The country’s reggae scene is thriving - and may finally be ready to hail its first star, writes Andrew Drever. Australia has yet to enjoy the emergence of its first home-grown reggae star. But with the increasing popularity of r...
Echo Minott asks ‘What the Hell the Police Can Do?’
Echo Minott asks ‘What the Hell the Police Can Do?’ With a consistently high murder rate, guns coming in from Haiti on fast boats and a surprise police commissioner resignation, many a law-abiding Jamaican citizen may jut be asking, R...
Reggae album sales plummet
Reggae album sales plummet It has not been a good year for Jamaican pop music. Sales tracker, SoundScan, reports that music buyers in the United States showed little interest in what Jamaican artistes had to offer in 2009. SoundScan has released sa...
Ready steady Eddy
Ready steady Eddy As if he hadn’t done enough performing of late, Eddy Grant is ready to roll once again Reggae rocker Eddy Grant is preparing to go on the road – again. The veteran performer is no stranger to performing, having spent much of la...
Blakk Rasta, Asem perform at Face of Ghana Holland 2009 grand finale
Blakk Rasta, Asem perform at Face of Ghana Holland 2009 grand finale Ghana’s reggae music sensation Blakk Rasta has flown out of the country to Amsterdam to perform at the 2009 Face of Ghana Holland pageant grand finale. Blakk Rasta’s show foll...
Remakes, rests and a ‘Stern’ performance
Remakes, rests and a ‘Stern’ performance After he recorded Every Nigger is a Star, Boris Gardiner used to perform the song regularly with his band, The Boris Gardiner Happening. He tells The Sunday Gleaner that people loved it and would ...
Studio One court case a heavy load - Bob Andy
Studio One court case a heavy load - Bob Andy The law suit between singer/songwriter Keith ‘Bob Andy’ Anderson and the Clement Coxsone Dodd estate continues this month with the singer stating that it is “weighing him down”. T...
1980 reggae movie ‘Rockers’ still has cult following
1980 reggae movie ‘Rockers’ still has cult following Reggae and a 30-year-old movie about its Jamaican culture has become popular with a new generation. Inner Circle includes founding members Ian and Roger Lewis, who both appeared in the 1978 fi...
Kartel says…’GAZA BUTTONS NOT OURS’
Kartel says…’GAZA BUTTONS NOT OURS’ Popular entertainer Vybz Kartel yesterday distanced himself and members of the Portmore Empire, from vendors who police clamped down on recently for selling Gaza buttons at school gates. The de...
Marley heirs wage global war on trademark pirates
Marley heirs wage global war on trademark pirates Coming to a store near you: Bob Marley video games, shoes … snowboards? Heirs of the Jamaican reggae legend are plunging into the global trademark wars, seeking to enforce their exclusive rights...
The pull of dancehall and reggae music
The pull of dancehall and reggae music The London Film Festival, one of the most important film festivals in the world, was held last week. One of the highlights was a film called Made in Jamaica, which showcases the best of reggae and dancehall musi...
The legal side of the music business
The legal side of the music business The following is an excerpt of the talk show, Inside the Muzik Biz, co-hosted by Thaddeus ‘Teddy’ Laidley every Wednesday at 3:30 to 4:00 pm. The programme is aired on Hot 102 FM during The Hot Mix, w...
Album Review: ‘Reggae-In-Fusion’ Heavy On Hartford
Album Review: ‘Reggae-In-Fusion’ Heavy On Hartford There’s more to reggae than the old-school sound of Bob Marley or the newer dancehall-fusion style of quasi-rappers like Sean Paul. In fact, reggae can be a template for pop, R...
Is Shaggy Dancehall’s ambassador?
Is Shaggy Dancehall’s ambassador? Dancehall was developed as a novelty genre. While reggae artists Bob Marley and Pete Tosh wrote about ‘One Love’ or ‘Shitstem’ respectively and ska spawned an often militant punk offshoot, it was vocal abo...
Reggaefying classic rock
Reggaefying classic rock Don’t be surprised if you start hearing reggae versions of songs by top Israeli rockers on the radio in the future. Michael Goldwasser, the mastermind behind New York-based record label Easy Star and the Easy Star All...
Ska, dub bands a hit in Japan
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Buju Banton’s Rasta Got Soul tour triumphs
Buju Banton’s Rasta Got Soul tour triumphs Mark Myrie, aka Buju Banton, is no ordinary entertainer; his songs say it all. Despite the ongoing campaign against him by members of the gay community, promoters are already calling his tour the bigg...
