I'm getting psyched that the Halloween season is upon us! I actually started this blog last October because I'd been admiring and en...

First off thanks to my friend Leonard for forwarding me this link. Now before I climb on my soapbox and before you continue reading... chec...

This has been a bad year for the loss of important Jamaican artists - Hearwax tipped me off to this and I thought I'd share it with thos...

I never really got into the whole My Space thing so when I first starting hearing about Youtube I thought it too was going to be another si...

"At midnight on August 5, 1962, Jamaica became a free independent nation within the British Commonwealth of Nations. A ceremony markin...

Now, due to underwhelming response or maybe because the visitors to this blog respond better to aural stimuli, I present 6 tracks taken from...

I haven't seen this mentioned elsewhere in reggae blogdom so I figured I'd step up and give this story the exposure it deserves... I...

Still haven't had time to do a real update... I should have just taken the easy route and announced a summer hiatus but being that we...

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...