This is Ska! and that’s no understatement. This video (embedded in 4 parts below) was originally released in 1989 and contains some of the most amazing footage of Ska at it’s mind-blowing detonation on the international stage. There has been no official DVD re-release of this video but tapes of this are available via ebay [...]
Hard work to put in ‘Door Peep’ introduction
Published: Sunday | August 16, 2009
Mel Cooke, Gleaner Writer
When Burning Spear’s Door Peep was first included on an album, it did not get title billing. Still, its position as the first song on side ‘B’ of the 1973 Studio One Presents Burning Spear suggested that it was very [...]
I’ll be dropping some vinyl sounds at the next Soulside. Always a fun night.
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Andrew Barker has dropped a review of the new Jandisc vinyl release Jah Faith & The Black Emeralds “No Bother Grumble” b/w “Humble Dub” over at our sister blog Musical Occupation.
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The Jamaica Observer reports that after 42 years, Max Romeo gives his ‘Last Hurrah’ and gets out of the music business.
Forty-two years after his entry into the musical arena, reggae pioneer Max Romeo, is ready to hang up the gloves. In a recent interview with the Observer, the singer indicated that he is in the [...]