Jillionaire’s Top Ten Tunes Of Carnival 2013
DJ Yoga Pants List His Favorite Soca Songs Of This Year 1/3 of Major Lazer, Trinidadian native Jillionaire knows a thing or two about Soca music. He has blessed us today with a list of the Top Ten ( in no particular order) Tunes Of Carnival 2013, songs that have been rocking all the […]
HEAR THIS: Jillionaire’s “Fog Up D Place” Carnival 2013 Mix
Jillionaire Compiles All Your Groovy Soca Tunes In One Nice Mix The good folks over at LargeUp teamed up with Jillionaire (of Major Lazer and Corner Bar fame) on their first installment of their mixtape series entitled “Fog Up D Place.” The mix features all of this Carnival season’s Groovy Soca songs with a few exclusive […]
WATCH THIS: Trinidad & Tobago Carnival Parade Of Bands 2013 Live Stream
For Those Of Us Who Couldn’t Be There So you were unable to make it to Trinidad & Tobago Carnival this year? And seeing all you friends posts on Facebook and Instagram isn’t helping either, well allow us to further rub some salt in your wounds. We know what you’re missing and you know […]
HEAR THIS: Machel Montano “The Fog” (Road Mix)
Machel And Precision Get Us Ready For The Road We are less than one week away from the “greatest show on earth” Trinidad & Tobago Carnival, and if you are like the few who won’t be attending the festivities this year allow us to rub some salt in your wounds. Machel and Precision Productions unload their […]
WATCH THIS: Kes The Band “Tuesday On The Rocks” Official Video
Kes Reminds Us That Just Because It’s Tuesday Doesn’t Mean You Can’t Have A Good Time So it’s Tuesday, after Monday it’s probably the second least favorite day of the week. Well cheer up, Kes The Band has just dropped the visuals to their widely popular “Tuesday On The Rocks.” Kes’ harmonic voice rides the […]
HEAR THIS: Skinny Fabulous & Machel Montano “Monstrosity”
Skinny Fabulous & Machel Montano Unleash Madness With Their New Tune “Monstrosity“ We are barely into the 2013 Carnival season, but so far it’s shaping up to be one to remember. We’ve already heard what Bunji had to offer with his appropriately titled “Differentology” (currently ripping up the airwaves) now Skinny Fabulous throws himself into […]
HEAR THIS: Bunji Garlin “Differentology”
Di Gyul Dem Dahlin Unleashes Something Different For The Carnival Season Bunji takes well, a different route on his latest appropriately titled single “Differentology.” We hear the “Gyul Dem Dahlin” spit the usual Carnival fare over a Sheriff Music/J-Rod Records track with additional instrumentation by Nigel Rojas. We like the direction Bunji is headed, perhaps […]
Gallery: Ajamu Photographs The West Indian Day Parade
Brooklyn We Go Hard From Port of Spain in Trinidad to Notting Hill in London, Carnival is a worldwide phenomenon. We all need a time and place to get on bad, right? Of course every city has their own unique way of wilding out—but you already know nobody goes harder than Brooklyn USA. You’ve got […]
DOWNLOAD: Heatwave Carnival Bashment Megamix 2012
Which Tunes Will Control Notting Hill Carnival This Weekend? This just in from the Heatwave UK massive: “We literally spend ALL YEAR going mad splashing rum and dancing to incredibly loud bashment and soca… FINALLY the time has come for the rest of London to jump on our wave. Wherever you live and whoever you […]
HEAR THIS: Major Lazer Presents Carnival 2012 Mix Hosted By Walshy Fire
Just in Time For Notting Hill Carnival Major Lazer Blends Dancehall, Soca And Pop Into One Amazing Mix When it comes to Caribbean music Major Lazer’s mixes are second to none. They superbly blend Dancehall into Soca with a splash of pop (check there No Doubt Remix) with some original production in between. The mix […]
WATCH THIS: Kes The Band Live in NYC
Rising Soca Stars Rock With David Rudder and Tessanne Chin Kes The Band is the future of soca music. This Friday they brought their infectiously forward-thinking brand of soca fusion to the Best Buy Theater in Times Square and Boomshots was there. They might not have won this year’s Soca Monarch or Road March competitions, […]
WATCH THIS: Jillionaire’s Carnival Anthem Countdown
Jillionaire Counts Down This Year’s Top 5 Soca Anthems With over 15 years in the game as a DJ, Trinidad’s very own Jillionaire might know a thing or two about Soca music. Having recently spent some time in Trinidad for the annual Carnival festivities Jillionaire compiled a list of the top 5 soca tunes guaranteed to have […]