Tag Archives: Reggae and Caribbean

State Radio is that voice for this generation. and Us Against The Crown follows through and gives everything the name implies it will. . . protest music.

...looking for a cure to winter in North America and can't afford to travel to sunnier climes, put this disc into your music player

For almost 30 years, Madness has continued to make ska – a form of Jamaican music that combines mento, calypso, jazz and R&B. Although the ska genre has certainly had many ups and downs, the fact that Madness still performs and makes music is astonishing. To put some perspective on …

Superb vocals, musical variety, fine musicianship and, not least, a delighful sense of play make this debut a winner.

Corey Harris has that rare ability to sound like himself and always at home no matter what musical veins he’s tapping. His spiritual-musical journeys to Africa, explorations of Caribbean styles, and American blues and soul roots all contribute to the smooth pleasures of his new CD. It’s possible to appreciate …

...In their eyes Bruce(Springsteen) is in the World Music category...

...you can hear the music but also see where it comes from, read about that place and feel involved in the culture

Willie Nelson is currently our greatest exemplar of the American(a) songbook as it stretches over prairie, plain, purple mountain majesties, delta, bayou, and honky tonks remote and urbane. Over a 50-year career he has absorbed and personalized as astonishing array of indiginous American musics, including Nashville, western, Tex-Mex, Texas songer-songwriter, …

We mentioned the “Ridden Driven” photographic tribute to dancehall reggae at the Eyejammie Gallery in NYC back in September. Now there is a fine review of the show up on New York Art World.com: Another photograph by Ajamu Myrie of a performance by the musical group, Elephant Man, in New …

Hey, summer’s over (although it’s a balmy 73 right now). How do I know? Because we are going to a haunted house tonight, so it must be near Halloween – what, you say it’s a month away? The Halloween season is now as long as Christmas. In fact, once October …