WATCH THIS: Morgan Heritage ft. Eric Rachmany “Wanna Be Loved” Official Music Video
Another Video From The Reggae Family’s Grammy-Winning Album Strictly Roots As one of reggae’s most enduringly and successful veteran acts, Morgan Heritage is known to be in a category by themselves. From their Grammy winning album Strictly Roots they’ve redefined roots reggae yet again; with their upbeat hit “Wanna Be Loved,” featuring Rebelution’s front man […]
HEAR THIS: Wild Belle’s Reggae Cover Version Megamix: “Summer Tropical Show N°3: Island Soul”
When They’re Not Collabing With Major Lazer, They’re Collecting Reggae 45s The cover version is a time-honored art form in Jamaica. Pioneering sound system owner turned record producer Coxsone Dodd used to travel to the United States in search of fresh clothes and rare vinyl to play on the mighty Sir Coxsone’s Downbeat. As his […]
Assassin Talks “Theory of Reggaetivity”: “Roots Proponents See Me as a Baldhead Rasta”
Agent Sasco Links Protoje & Chronixx, Returns To The Roots Yesterday Assassin aka Agent Sasco released Theory of Reggaetivity, his first album in over 10 years. The 14-song set shot straight toward the highest regions of the iTunes reggae chart, landing just below Bob Marley’s Legend, which is appropriate for the dancehall DJ’s first all-reggae […]
WATCH THIS: Kendrick Lamar ft. the voice of Assassin “The Blacker The Berry” Live pon The Grammys
Agent Sasco Was Not In The Building For The Grammys, But His Words Rang In Our Ears Let’s start by saying that there were no losers at this years Grammys. Congratulations to Morgan Heritage on the Grammy they worked so hard for—for their entire lives. Big up The Weeknd and Kendrick and Adele and Lady […]
WATCH THIS: Busy Signal “Come Over (Missing You)” Acoustic Cover
Great Songs Are Just Great Songs, No Matter Where You Come From Busy Signal is not just the most versatile artist in dancehall today, he’s also a great songwriter. The Turf Prezident’s powerful pen game inspired this acoustic cover version, which we discovered last night on his Instagram. The singer’s name is Jayne. The guitarist […]
Tune For Tune: Battle of the “Hello” Reggae Versions
Who Did Adele’s Big Tune Better: Conkarah & Rosie Delmah or Alaine? Big up all Boomshots massive and welcome to a new feature we call “Tune for Tune.” Today we’re going to compare different reggae versions of Adele’s 2015 chart-topped “Hello.” In Reshma B’s latest Clash Music Reggae & Dancehall Column, she points out that […]
DOWNLOAD: Randy Valentine “Radio Music” Mixtape
The Singer Ternt Rappa Now Valentine’s Day may be coming up, but don’t you ever try to put Randy Valentine in a box—not even a heart-shaped box. On his first mixtape, Bring Back the Love (which was downloaded over 50’000 times), RV voiced over classic reggae instrumentals from the “foundation” era of reggae. Yesterday the […]
Why Rihanna Might Just Drop “Anti” Any Time Now
BadGyal RiRi Still Teasing That Eighth Album It would not be an unfair generalization to say that magazine editors tend to ultra-competitive personalities who are not above a little schadenfreude now and then. I’m not too proud to say that, after pursuing my third Drake cover for several years while at Complex—and coming up empty, […]
HEAR THIS: Pressure Buss Pipe “Live Life” PREMIERE
Tune In Pon This Brand New Heatmakerz Production Because Live Is For Living “Everybody’s talking about the heartaches in the ghetto, and how it’s rough in the streets—and it is,” says Virgin-Islands born reggae singer Pressure Buss Pipe. “I wanted to turn it around and make people happy. Just make people see life in a […]
WATCH THIS: Unified Highway “My Space” Official Music Video PREMIERE
New Music & Visuals From Eric & Amp First things first, this is not a social media song. “There’s two words and no dot com,” says vocalist/guitarist Eric Rachmany (also the frontman for Cali roots band Rebelution) of the latest release from Unified Highway, his collaborative project with renowned producer, DJ, and remixer Amp Live […]
WATCH THIS: Nesbeth “My Dream” Official Music Video
From Trenchtown, A Next Star Arise Released last month, “My Dream” features the veteran reggae singer reflecting on the struggles he’s faced in Jamaica and focusing on not giving up. A superb track from start to finish, it’s a progressive take on roots reggae with a dash of picked pop guitar and a catchy bounce. […]
Dre Island Makes Mass Appeal’s List of
“16 Artists To Watch in 2016”
Anticipation Builds For The Now I Rise Project A graduate of Kingston’s Calabar high school—alma mater of both Jr. Gong and Vybz Kartel—reggae/dancehall producer turned performer Andre Johnson aka Dre Island is emerging as a living link between the vaunted “roots revival” movement and the sound of the Jamaican streets. “The revival is really within […]