Jah Cure Talks Grammy Nomination, Freedom for Buju & The Life He Lives
Reshma B Reasons With Iyacure Pon Di Cruise Nobody had more fun on this year’s Welcome to Jamrock Reggae Cruise than Jah Cure. The World Singer is always appreciative when he gets the chance to reach an international audience, particularly since visa issues have prevented fans in the UK and the USA fr0m seeing him […]
Special Livication: Dennis Brown “Things In Life”
Big Request To The Late Great Peter Dean Rickards aka Afflicted And so this surreal year in which we’ve lost so many bright lights ends with the news that Peter Dean Rickards has passed away on New Year’s Eve. He battled cancer quietly, and with the same grim sense of humor that characterized all his work as […]
HEAR THIS: Tessanne Chin “If You Love Me”
Tessanne Lays Down The Law On the Fight This Feeling Juggling Now that the Shaggy and Beres selection “Fight This Feeling” is a certified modern classic, the good folks at Ranch Entertainment had the good sense to release a full juggling pon the Sly & Robbie riddim, first deployed on Dennis Brown’s “Sitting and Watching.” […]
Grand Theft Auto V Reggae Selections
Lee “Scratch” Perry Programs GTA V’s Blue Ark Radio Playlist The biggest selling video game in the world has always had the baddest tunes. Grand Theft Auto V hits stores today and the reggae playlist tun up. Just jack any passing car, turn your radio dial to The Blue Ark and check out these roots […]
Sean Kingston Gets Back to His Jamaican Roots
Sean Kingston’s 10 Favorite Reggae Songs—PLUS His New Tune w Busta Rhymes Ever since Sean Kingston first burst on the music scene as a teenage pop sensation with a runaway debut hit “Beautiful Girls,” we’ve been hearing how he grew up in Jamaica and his music was influenced by reggae. As hard as we listened we never […]
WATCH THIS: Shaggy ft. Beres Hammond “Fight This Feeling” Official Music Video
Shaggy and Beres link to create a modern-day classic Shaggy links with Beres Hammond for a modern-day classic love song set to a timeless Sly & Robbie riddim. The first single from Shaggy’s highly anticipated album “Out of Many, One Music” with riddims by Sly & Robbie and additional production by Sting International and Lenky. […]
Reasoning with Chronixx, Part 2: “Making Meaningful Music”
Chronixx Says He’ll Never Resort To Gimmicks In Order To Get A “Buss” In his tune “Odd Ras” Rising reggae star Chronixx, pokes fun at artists who would seemingly do anything to “Buss.” In this second of five candid conversations with Boomshots, Chronixx lists the things he would never do to hype up his career. He […]
Konshens Pays Respect To 47 Reggae Superstars Who Paved the Way
Who And Who Rates As An Icon Inna The Business? Remember when Shabba Ranks dropped that tune “Respect“? “Step by step you haffi climb the ladder / The elders you haffi show respect fah.” It’s plan to see that Konshens got the message. He may be on top of the game now, but he’s not […]
Reasoning with Dennis Emmanuel Brown
The Crown Prince Would Have Turned 56 Today The first of February marks the beginning of Black History Month and Reggae Month. It’s also the birthday of the late great Dennis Brown, known to reggae lovers as the Crown Prince. (If only because Bob Marley was the undisputed King, although Marley himself gave Dennis maximum […]
Johnny Osbourne & Tarrus Riley Rock Miss Lily’s Variety Anniversary Bash
Last Night Come In Like A Stage Show Last night Miss Lily’s Variety and Melvin’s Juice Box celebrated its first anniversary in fine style with an all-day party that was broadcast live on RadioLily.com. The place was packed with reggae royalty from early out. Dean Fraser and Tarrus Riley mingled with Clive Chin and Carol […]
Flinging Down Father’s Day Selections
Big Request To All The Daddies Round The World Reggae music has no shortage of tunes bigging up the mothers of creation. So whappen to the fathers? No love for Papa? With Father’s Day right around the corner, we did some digging and the results were mixed. Most of these sound like they’re really more […]
HEAR THIS: Live From The Turntable Club
Dennis Brown, Delroy Wilson & Big Youth With The Soul Syndicate In 1974 What we’re about to do right now is go back. Waaay back. The year is 1974. The place, Kingston Jamaica’s fabulous Turntable Club. Chinna Smith and the Soul Syndicate band are rocking live on the bandstand with King Tubby’s and Errol T […]