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- Flex-ing his urban muscles
- Purple haze settles over Auditorium Shores
- Brooklyn Music Festival rganizers Take No Prisoners with Power …
- Interview: UB40’s Saxophonist Brian Travers
- ‘¢ Morristown Music Watch: Tom Petty tribute Screaming Nudes …
- INSIDE THE CARIBBEAN: The biggest names …
The riginal Black Panta signs worldwide recording deal at …
PRLog.rg (press release)
This is the level we need to be at making sure this music in major retail and worked to more than one radio format. “Tropical Records established in 2007 on the island of Jamaica is the stand alone world music reggae styled and Caribbean Music Record Company at Sunset Records. Sunset is fast becoming one of the largest independent labels in the United States and can boast to having top 50 songs playing on the Urban Radio Stations with its up and coming hip-hop-flavored and upbeat dancehall style of music. The 2007 release of Cryout?s catalog of recorded music and Stondie?s Indy Island hit song paved the way for these two signings. The label also released the Pleasure f The Caribbean CD with the Menus and Music Production Company and these releases helped catapult the Jamaica-born label to have the ability to sign two of reggae music?s household names today. Sunset Records is one of the world’s pre-eminent independent entertainment companies in the world today.
Flex-ing his urban muscles
New York Daily News
“When an emcee introduces me as Flex at a show the crowd still shouts out my other name. Flex?s music may be classified as “urban” but don?t call it reggaetón. The singer describes it as “reggae romántico” and his newly released record “.
Purple haze settles over Auditorium Shores
UT The Daily Texan
Diop was one of several vendors selling Bob Marley merchandise Sunday afternoon. Large crowds reggae music and relaxation were defining aspects of the festival. The sticky smell of good marijuana mingled with dust on a beautiful Sunday afternoon as hippies of all varieties hit their pipes in plain sight. I donned a sundress and spent the day at the Austin Reggae Festival as the weekend’s rainy weather came to an end. The festival which has been going on since 1994 is Austin’s longest-running outdoor music event. This year the Skatalites and the Wailing Souls headlined the event held at Auditorium Shores.
Brooklyn Music Festival rganizers Take No Prisoners with Power …
TropicalFete.com
Slated for Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field on Sunday June 21st the Brooklyn Music Festival features the biggest names in Reggae and Dancehall as well as celebrated names in Hip Hop Ska Soul and Rhythm & Blues. The ‘Gully Gaad’ Mavado Dancehall singing sensation Serani the ‘King of the Dancehall’ Beenie Man the ‘Poor People’s Governor’ Bounty Killer the ‘Energy God’ Elephant Man ‘King Shango’ Capleton ‘Jamaica’s Stevie Wonder’ Frankie Paul roots Reggae star Tarrus Riley and Hip Hop legend Big Daddy Kane round out the list of the festival’s heavy hitting headliners. “When you are putting together a summer festival especially in the current economic climate you either come hard or don’t come at all. You have to pull out the big guns” states well-known promoter George Crooks founder and president of Brooklyn Music Festival. “Big Daddy Kane told me there ain’t no half-stepping” jokes Crooks.
Interview: UB40’s Saxophonist Brian Travers
LAist
After the progressive rock and disco of the 70’s Britain’s teenagers that included us were looking for something rooted in reality. UB40 were not too taken with Punk music although the culture was cool always being far more interested in soul and reggae music music you could dance with a girl to rather than jump up and down with your mates. We were very political and very committed anti-whatever you got and regularly marched on anti racism demonstrations taking on the right wing extremism that always thrives on economic depression which at the time was getting strong support from the very disillusioned and poor uneducated white working class. It manifested itself as a new Skin head culture. Ironically a few years previously the skin head fashion and culture was very multi racial thing and the very place where Reggae after Ska and Bluebeat arrived in inner city Britain from Jamaica via the influx of Jamaican people coming to England looking for work. We were young and naive and really did believe we could change something with our songs but as time passed we soon learnt that songs change nothing that does not stop us from continuing to write with a social conscience and although we might not put right any wrongs we aim to seduce with the music and subvert with the lyrics.
‘¢ Morristown Music Watch: Tom Petty tribute Screaming Nudes …
The Star-Ledger – NJ.com
Morristown-based reggae band UNIVERSAL REBEL returns to the Dublin Pub on Friday April 24 and 27 PINE is back on Saturday April 25. Eight local bands including Morristown’s own Charlie and the Vanilla Faces will be facing off in the third annual Rock ‘n’ Red Battle of the Bands on Saturday April 25 at the Morris Plains Community Center. For more details about CVF and other bands in the competition.
Related from Lloydgreenmusic: Spring concerts on tap for Morristown Green
INSIDE THE CARIBBEAN: The biggest names …
Eurweb.com
And that?s a wrap for Inside the Caribbean for this week. We certainly hope that you enjoyed the column and we look forward to your comments and suggestions. I can be reached at. comNTE: Kevin Jackson is the Production Manager at Reggae Entertainment Television (RETV) an all music cable channel which is a subsidiary of the RJR Communications Group in Kingston Jamaica. RETV is watched in Jamaica and 12 other Caribbean countries including Trinidad & Tobago St Vincent & The Grenadines Belize Costa Rica St Lucia St Marteen Dominica and Antigua and Barbuda.
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