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- Exclusive: John Hughes pens Up In Unpublished 1997 Interview
- Ziggy Marley: Passing the music to the kids
- Talking Arts -Reggae going off track
- reggaefest jams again
- The faces of reggae
- Sustaining a community; Reggae festival vendors serve meals save …
Reggae Band Rebelution Dominates iTunes Charts With Their …
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The band?s new release currently holds the #1 spot on iTunes in the reggae music genre and the #3 spot for top albums downloaded in the United States in all genres of music. The album joins the likes of top artists such as Modest Mouse Colbie Caillat Whitney Houston Black Eyed Peas Zac Brown Band and Kings of Leon. In response to their success on the charts Rebelution shares ?We are excited to see the continuation of the pathway being built by independent artists. ? Leading up to the release the pre-sales of the album had Rebelution with two albums in the Top 10 their not yet released ?Bright Side of Life? at #2 and their 2007 release ?Courage to Grow? at #6 where it still stands today. ? The title track off the album ?Bright Side f Life? held onto the #3 spot in the Top Songs in the Reggae genre alongside top Reggae artists such as Sean Paul Bob Marley Shaggy Eddy Grant Serani and UB40.
Exclusive: John Hughes pens Up In Unpublished 1997 Interview
MTV.com
“Every time I put that music on it reminds me emotionally where I was in the script” he explained. “I usually listen to surf music not much instrumental music and when I was younger I listened to jazz. I used to write to the Clash — [albums like] Give Em’ Enough Rope — and early on a lot of reggae. ” He professed to being a “music snob” who refused to listen to top 40 when he was younger and to getting copies of England’s Melody Maker magazine so he could look at the import charts and send away for records that none of his peers knew about. “In the ’70s I was dying” he said. “I couldn’t stand hippie music.
Ziggy Marley: Passing the music to the kids
San Jose Mercury News
Reggae music people people who play it people who listen to it always would pass the music to their kids you know?”"It came to me that it’s time that we did music especially directed to children and we started to write the songs. I think — thinking much deeper into it — it’s a way for me to connect with the audience if we can connect to them in this early stage in their lives the changes that we want to see in this world is more possible than if we just making music for people who are already kind of set in their ways. “I think that was the reason why this was put into my lap to do this. Because the message was for the children it’s really the children who have the open-mindedness it’s the children that can make the changes we are talking about today happen. “We can inspire them you know?”And what changes are we talking about?”Love and peace and happiness and joy and unity and environmental all of the good stuff you know?” Marley said.
Talking Arts -Reggae going off track
Malawi's Daily Times
” ne of the most liked quotes by Malcom X used later in Mutabaruka’s songs. When most of Africa was liberated there was Apartheid South Africa which artists including musicians had to deal with. When Bob Marley popularised reggae music Africa became the main focus of the musicians who believed that it is their ancestral homes. Peter Tosh’s ‘Fight Against Apartheid’ and Bunny Wailer’s ‘Botha The Mosquito’ are some of the songs against Apartheid South Africa. Lucky Dube was later influenced by such songs and came up with songs like ‘Prisoner. ‘So if people still listen to such music it is no longer for the original message. Rarely the songs have been referred to for everything that has remained the same; no education for black people for instance.
reggaefest jams again
Akron Beacon Journal
The newest generation of Jamaican artists will be heavily represented with up-and-coming singers Tarrus Riley Duane Stephenson and Lenya Wilks. Each night of the festival will include a popular veteran artist. n Friday 50 years of reggae music will take the stage with the Rastafarian group Culture featuring Kenyatta Hill son of original lead singer Joseph Hill who died in 2006. The evening’s headliner will be Beres Hammond one of the most popular purveyors of ”lover’s rock” a smooth style of reggae that focuses on matters of the heart. Hammond may not be a household name to the casual fan but among the dedicated his hits including Tempted to Touch and his easily recognizable aching tenor have made him a longtime favorite particularly among female fans. The lover’s rock legends will continue on Saturday with headliner Freddie McGregor another veteran singer whose career began when he was 7 in the early 1960s. McGregor’s career has thrived through many reggae styles from reggae precursors ska and rocksteady through the 1970 Rastafarian roots movement lover’s rock dub and dance hall.
The faces of reggae
Contra Costa Times
To some it’s simply the best reggae concert on the planet. For others it is a great chance to party in the sunshine and enjoy the outdoors. By the carload people are descending on Dimmick Ranch this weekend for a three-day concert featuring dozens of bands and some of reggae music’s biggest names. About 14000 people are expected to attend the festival this weekend each of them bringing a different story about what brought them to camp on the banks of the Eel River. Here are four of the faces at Reggae Rising this year. The collection Ernie Boetius doesn’t think he’s exaggerating when he says his business and his booth at Reggae Rising has the world’s greatest selection of reggae music.
Sustaining a community; Reggae festival vendors serve meals save …
Redwood Times
Ryce estimated that Skyfish Elementary School receives about $14000 or $15000 from working the annual festival on the banks of the Eel River money that helps support the school’s music program. And Skyfish Elementary has plenty of company as many of the summer festival’s two dozen food booths help a variety of local and regional nonprofit organizations do everything from protect watersheds to preserve languages. With the sounds of reggae music pulsing in the background Crystal Richardson spent Sunday morning selling Indian Tacos but — if you ask her — she was doing much more than that. Richardson said her booth was raising funds for the Advocates of Indigenous California Language Survival (AICLS) a nonprofit organization working to preserve native languages through a variety of programs. ”We find young people in the community and pair them with elder native speakers” Richardson said adding that AICLS also provides financial assistance to people looking to study native languages hoping to preserve as many of California’s “endangered” languages as possible. But Richardson said she also knows that many languages have been lost with the passing of tribal elders and said AICLS works with linguistics experts to study and hopefully bring back some of the languages and some of the cultures that were lost along with them. ”These languages are falling through the cracks” Richardson said.
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