Sorry for the lack of new posts over the last couple weeks but I was invited to spin some music at this month's DC Soundclash and I'...

I got together yesterday to watch the match with my English friend Joe and I was quite surprised to walk into a bar in downtown Baltimore an...

No music today but I wanted to share my new blog still under constuction. Compiling and collecting Junjo's output on the three labels ...

First off thanks to Hearwax for reminding me to get this off my chest... Being in the States you'd hardly know that one, if not thee gre...

Keeping with the Yellowman on this post... Available for your listening pleasure is the 1982 Joe Gibbs release "Superstar Yellowman Has...

As you can see from the photo (sorry it's so blurry - the security at the concert venue were being real A-holes about taking pictures).....

Taken from the Jamaica Gleaner - May 26, 2006 "Desmond Adolphus Dacres, more widely known around the globe as Desmond Dekker, is dead. ...

In conjunction with Hearwax, Rockers Radio and Schrikdraad... it is my pleasure to present another piece of the Tappa/Tapper Zukie discograp...

Ranking Joe (born Joseph Jackson, 1959) got into the music business as a youth originally calling himself DJ Jolly. At 15 he went to Studio...

Sorry no music shares today... but I hope you'll stick around to read my testimonal on the importance of Bob Marley in my life. I almost...

Since time is limited today and because someone else has written it so consisely, I’m quoting directly from the thorough Peter Tosh biograph...

In response to a request I’m sharing 3 Augustus Pablo produced singles on the Rockers International label that I picked up at an Eek A Mouse...

Billy Boyo (born Billy Rowe, September 21, 1969) was probably the most prolific of the early-80’s child MC’s, sure Beenie Man was the only o...

The Wailing Souls, originally known as the Renegades, first consisted of Lloyd “Bread” McDonald, George “Buddy” Haye and Winston “Pipe” Matt...

Little John (born John McMorris, 1970) first recorded “51 Storm” at the age of nine with Captain Sinbad for the Youth In Progress label and ...

I was driving to work sometime last month and up popped the song by Prince Jazzbo called “Gal Boy I-Roy.” It sparked an immediate interest ...

I was forwarded the link to some mpeg files from a Guinness ad campaign that featured Lee "Scratch" Perry hawking his favorite st...

Mutabaruka (Allan Hope, 1952) was born Catholic but discovered Rastafari at an early age. Around that time he also got involved in the Blac...

After reading the write-up about Dennis Walks on Schrikdraad I combed through my collection to come up with a couple more tunes from this ...

Gonna go a little more old school with this post… Bob Andy (born Keith Anderson 1944) was one of the original members of the legendary Studi...

Brigadier Jerry (born Robert Russell) got started DJing, as many with a similar cultural fashion did, on U-Roy's King Stur Gav Hi-Fi. I...