reggae news
Track: On-U sound announces comprehensive New Age Steppers reissue campaign, stream the unreleased ‘Send for Me’
Out on 19th March 2021, On-U Sound are reissuing the four studio albums, plus another album of unreleased music from seminal group New Age Steppers, who were essentially a loose collective based around the partnership of Adrian Sherwood and The Slits’ Ari Up. The band existed, albeit on and off, between 1980 and 2012, bringing …
News: HR (Bad Brains) to release new album ‘Give Thanks’
Paul “HR” Hudson Front man of the iconic punk band Bad Brains, formed in 1979. He’s releasing a new album, Give Thanks, which drops on 18th October via Hardline Entertainment. Originally formed under the name Mind Power a Jazz Fusion band, a name and direction change soon came. Incorporating speed and an incredible precision, Bad Brains quickly …
News: North of England Reggae / Soul festival Love 4 Music Festival announces headliner Dawn Penn
Ahead of their first festival year, The Love 4 Music Festival organisers have a modus operandi that their audience associate with well-run, easy-going events. With soul, funk and reggae music currently underrepresented in the North of England, the Love 4 Music Festival promises to give fans of this music a chance to see A-list artists perform without the need …
News: David Rodigan to release autobiography – My Life in Reggae
It’s an unlikely story. A 65 year old Oxfordshire born man who, over the course of his life, has become a world renowned, international DJ and broadcaster who has championed the music of Jamaica across the world, despite, as he says ‘…looking like an accountant or a dentist.” He’s headlined festivals, has regular shows on …
News: Prince Buster, An Obituary 1938 – 2016
Ska and Rocksteady pioneer Prince Buster died on the 8th of September, at his home in Miami at the age of 78. Cited as creating the ska sound when he told his band to play on the off-beat, his influence on Jamaican music was vast. Buster (real name Cecil Campbell), a street boxer, teamed up …
News: RIP John Bradbury – The Specials
I was 11 when I first really got in to music. As a young impressionable kid, I not only wanted to make an impression I was looking for an identity. They were difficult times for me. My parents had just divorced – which, at that time, was a rarity where I came from – I’d …
Competition: Win tickets to see ‘The Wailers’ perform ‘Legend’
Reggae icons The Wailers are set to hit these shores in a week or two, for their biggest UK tour to date, where they will play ‘Legend’ in it’s entirety. Formed in 1969 with Bob Marley at the helm, The Wailers set out on an odyssey to promote Rastafarian ideals of peace, love and equality …
News: On-U Sound reissue Singers & Players’ – “War Of Words”
Whether it be The Clash covering ‘Police & Thieves’, DJ Don Letts spinning reggae at the Roxy or Steel Pulse opening for The Stranglers, dub reggae has been associated with the punk rock scene, in the UK, USA and beyond, since at least as far back as 1977. The influence, and shared experiences (for starters …
Win Tickets to See Congo Natty / Sherwood & Pinch and more at Koko
Jungle music legend Congo Natty heads to KOKO in London on June 13th. Its a unique opportunity to catch one of the real game changers of the underground UK scene in action, and he’s bringing a stellar line up with him. We’ve featured Sherwood & Pinch, aka Dub Legend Adrian Sherwood and the golden boy …
News: The Selecter announce tour dates and details of new album.
1980 was the year I first properly got into music. Not quite in my teens I’d received a stereo radio cassette player for my birthday and a wedge of Boots vouchers, (sounds shit today, but at the time most Boots had a semi-decent music department; as well as a chemist???). With those vouchers and a …