Review: Magic – Primary Colours
The Pier Album Rating: Release Date: July 1st, 2016 Record Label: Sony Music Official Website: MAGIC! Website Artist Background: Fronted by GRAMMY Award-winning Producer/Songwriter Nasri Atweh, the…
Read moreReview: Rebelution – Falling Into Place
The Pier Album Rating: Release Date: June 3rd, 2016 Record Label: Easy Star Records Official Website: Rebelution Website Artist Background: For over a decade, Rebelution has been at…
Read moreReggae Singer Tyron Daley aka “Junior Spice” Faces Deportation to Jamaica
US based Reggae singer/songwriter Tyron Daley know as Junior Spice is facing deportation to Jamaica because of an alleged drug charge. Daley is currently in US Immigration custody in Miami…
Read moreBunny Wailer and Max Romeo
Reggae legends Bunny Wailer and Max Romeo are teaming up for a trio of UK dates during mid-summer. Opening up at Manchester Ritz on Friday, July 8, they zip down…
Read moreEasy Star Celebrating 10 Years of “Radiodread”
Easy Star All-Stars are coming up on the 10th anniversary of their acclaimed Radiohead cover album, Radiodread. To celebrate, Easy Star Records has announced a special edition re-release of their…
Read moreThe guitar maestro says farewell at the Barbican Centre
One week after turning 84 and two days on from performing in a muddy field at Glastonbury, Ernest Ranglin played his farewell London show at the Barbican Centre. The Jamaican…
Read moreStephen Marley announces new album
Stephen Marley – son of Bob Marley as well as a multiple Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and acclaimed reggae producer – is set to release his long-awaited fourth studio album Revelation…
Read moreEd Robinson pays homage to the late Dennis Brown: For You
July 1st, 2016 will mark 17 years of the passing of reggae icon the late Dennis Emmanuel Brown. Ed Robinson pays homage to his musical mentor Dennis Brown with a…
Read moreStephen Marley Revelation Part II: The Fruit of Life (2016)
Produced by Marley, including collaborations with Rick Ross, Pit Bull, Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley, Iggy Azalea, Waka Flocka, Dead Prez, Rakim, DJ Khaled, Busta Rhymes, Wyclef Jean, Shaggy, Black Thought…
Read more50 Cent Arrested at St. Kitts Music Fest for Using Indecent Language
St. Kitts and Nevis (WINN): American Rapper 50 Cent was arrested in the early hours of Sunday morning, following an expletive-riddled performance at the St. Kitts Music Festival. “Fiddy,” Curtis…
Read more‘Jamaica bans sexually explicit and violent songs from airwaves’
A new craze called ‘daggering’ is sweeping the country’s clubs. No, it’s not murder on the dancefloor, it’s simulating sex – and broadcasting regulators are trying to put a stop…
Read moreJamaican genre has been blacklisted in Croydon’s nightclubs.
Dice nightclub owner Roy Seda told the publication that police have sent undercover officers into his establishment to ensure his DJs were not playing the genre, whose stars include Vybz…
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