A major moment for reggae and dancehall artist Samora, who currently lives in Bern, Switzerland. Together with Canadian singer Ammoye, she has been nominated for the 2026 JUNO Award with the song More Reggae (Funk It Up) in the category Reggae Recording of the Year. The JUNO Awards are considered Canada’s most prestigious music awards and the country’s equivalent of…
NEW RELEASE In The Mood is a six-track collaborative EP from Hopeton Lindo and Fiona. The project includes Guilty and In Your Eyes, two songs that topped charts in New York and South Florida. Hopeton handled production on four of the six tracks through his Irie Pen Records label. The remaining two, In Your Eyes and the title track In…
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Back in the fall of 2008, VP Records’ imprint 17 North Parade celebrated fifty years of the legendary Randy’s Records with Randy’s 50th Anniversary, released only on CD at the time. Now, many years later, vinyl heads finally get their turn as the first disc from that set has been pressed to black wax. The Foundation This double LP follows…
In the same week that the sad news emerged from Jamaica of Sly Dunbar’s passing, the Burning Sounds label reissues a dub album by The Revolutionaries, the house band for Channel One Studio. When The Revolutionaries were formed in 1975, it was Sly Dunbar who really set the tone. His sharp, driving, four-on-the-floor patterns defined the rockers sound and left…
1. Hit The Road Jack – Big Youth (Trojan)2. Dat – Pluto Shervington (Opal)3. Rockers Nuh Crackers – Glen Washington (Ital)4. Reggae Got Soul – Toots & The Maytals (Island)5. Whip Them No Skip Them – Sir Lee (Grounation)6. Mama Say – The Heptones (Island)7. Cold I Up – Johnny Clarke (Attack)8. Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner – Michael Rose…
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By the mid-’70s, things were getting shaky for Coxsone Dodd. Studio One had already shaped ska, rocksteady, and early reggae. Everybody knew that. But the sound of Jamaica was changing fast, and it wasn’t waiting on anyone. The Channel One Challenge The big pressure came from Channel One, run by the Hookim brothers up on Maxfield Avenue. They had arrived…
‘Reggae Goes Soul with The Temptations’ is exactly what it sounds. You get the easy sway of ska, rocksteady and reggae riddims in cover versions of classic Temptations tunes that defined the sound of Motown soul. Think steady riddims, deep bass, and vocals that still hit you right in the chest. It’s Detroit soul taking a laid-back walk through Kingston,…