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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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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.…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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