Azizzi Romeo is finally putting a full album on the table. After a run of singles on Recall Reality and Tribe 84 Records, he’s announced his debut LP, Signs Of The Time, made in full partnership with Denmark’s Guiding Star Orchestra, the 11-piece outfit that’s built a name on that organic, heavy-horn, live analog roots sound. The album drops and…
Johnny Clarke’s classic roots set Originally Mr. Clarke is receiving a fully restored reissue in September 2026, issued by VP Records subsidiary 17 North Parade, in partnership with Gorgon Music. The album was first released in 1980 on Brad Osborne’s Clocktower Records label in the United States and gathers ten late-1970s recordings from one of Jamaica’s most influential voices of…
VP Records’ ongoing collaboration with King Jammy brings us Zarro, the first-ever studio recording by the late Wayne Smith. Remarkably, Smith was just 14 when he recorded the song with his next-door neighbour, Prince Jammy, five years before he would become one of the defining voices of dancehall’s digital revolution with Under Mi Sleng Teng. Recorded at Channel One Studios…
STAY UPDATED WITH OUR PICKS OF THE WEEK In general, Reggae Vibes’ weekly Spotify Playlist is compiled of tunes that were released in the previous week, a blast from the past, a dub piece, chart toppers and new entries in the dancehall & reggae charts, and tracks from albums and EPs that were reviewed in the past seven days. Share…
Singles Chart September 1976 1 Police And Thieves – Junior Murvin (Island) 2 Sweet Feeling – Abyssinians (Nationwide) 3 Roast Fish And Cornbread – Lee Perry (Island) 4 M.P.L.A – Tapper Zukie (Klik) 5 Sufferers Time – The Heptones (Island) 6 Kiss And Say Goodbye – Cassandra (Lucky) 7 Danger Zone – Jah Stitch (Locke) 8 Misty Blue – Fiona…
Sep 4-10 | 2026 WORLD ON FIRE – 450 TRU AMBASSADOR/NEXT GENERATION lw 3 | woc 12 | 1 wk @ #1 PSYCHIC – SQUASH 6IX REAL RECORDS/HEMTON MUSIC/SALKEY RECORDS/NW RECORDZ lw 4 | woc 10 RICH MF – MERKZ & FELONI19 MERKZ MUSIC & RICO RECORDS lw 6 | woc 9 MY TURN – VALIANT, SHENSEEA & RVSSIAN HEAD…
This is our weekly Reggae Vibes Album Top 20, brought to you by Teacher & Mr. T. It’s a handpicked selection of twenty reggae and dancehall albums we love and want to share with you. Forget about sales figures, streaming stats, or commercial hype—this chart is strictly about the music we believe deserves your attention. LW = Last Week; WOC…
Peckings Records out of London just dropped an Alton Ellis showcase LP on their Dutchess imprint, out on vinyl and download both. The sleeve leans more toward a 12″ single cover, pieced together from old photos out of the Peckings archive, which is a bit of a letdown honestly. There’s no info printed anywhere on the record itself, no personnel,…
Where: Los AngelesWhen: August 22, 2025Reporter: Stephen CooperPhotos & Videos: Stephen CooperMedia Editing : TeacherCopyright: 2026 – Stephen Cooper The Rockwell Lounge in the West Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles is not a good place to enjoy music. The sound system and sound engineering are subpar. The acoustics are atrocious, probably because the so-called “lounge”—adjacent to a pizza joint…
Malie Donn has been building his name for a while now. Early 2020s underground cuts like Hennergy and Crook put him on the radar, but it was the viral success of V6 that took Jamaican artist Kymalie Hylton, better known as Malie Donn, to an international audience. With his melodic “highway music” approach and raw lyrics, he quickly became one…