Every year, a representative from the Recording Academy walks onto the Grammys stage to plead for your money, advocating the basic but nonetheless accurate argument is that musicians deserve to be paid. The Recording Academy has decided to take their fight from the brief charity segment by addressing a letter to president-elect Donald Trump. On November…
There are many rivers to cross before the family feud dividing UB40 settles. And that settlement is likely to happen in court with neither side backing down, despite mounting costs. In March, original singer Ali Campbell lost his bid to block a high court injunction from brothers Robin and Duncan Campbell in UB40,…
Next month, Nairobi will host Jamaican reggae legends, The Wailing Souls. The visiting band is set to perform at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre on November 5. Beside the concert, the iconic reggae band will be in the country to sensitive youth on the threat they face with HIV/AIDS as well as…
What happened to Peter Tosh’s Grammy Award? by Malcolm Gay That’s the question being asked after a Davis Square pawnshop became an unlikely player in the protracted family drama of the late reggae superstar. The Grammy was posthumously awarded to Tosh in 1988. The tale of its recent…
Veteran record producer Lloyd Campbell, of Joe Fraser and Spiderman Productions, lost his battle with cancer earlier this morning at age 68. Mr. Campbell was born on June 4, 1948. Over the years, he had produced many hit songs for Freddie McGregor, Marcia Griffiths, Pam Hall, Glen Washington, Tinga Stewart, Leroy Sibbles, Lloyd…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE To: Head of Entertainment News The media fraternity, music fraternity, fans, friends and supporters From: ETANA Date: Sunday September 25, 2016 SUBJECT: Interview Concerns – Press Statement from Etana It is important that as humans we recognize and appreciate the importance of both individual and collective responsibility;…
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 after being detained on April 21, 2016. Daley has had his music career put on hold abruptly due to this surprising development and his planned…
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 to Birmingham Academy the following night and wind up at London’s Kentish Town Forum on Sunday, July 10.
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 2006 album. The release is scheduled for August 12th, 2016. As an early treat, they’ve dropped a new cover of Radiohead’s hit song “High And…
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 guitar cornerstone was not backed by reggae musicians (past visits have utilised drum/bass duos Sly & Robbie and Mafia & Fluxy). For his retirement tour…
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 Part II: The Fruit of Life, the follow-up to Revelation Part I: The Root of Life, which was put out in 2011. Whereas The…
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 James Jackson III, was arrested in his dressing room at the Warner Park Stadium and taken to the Basseterre Police Station where he was charged…
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 to it Radio listeners in Jamaica have been forced to say goodbye to many of their favourite songs, thanks to a new ban on tunes that “promote”…
