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Wednesday, November 25, 2020

They’ve All Gone…: Beat Crazy Turns 40

November 16, 2020November 19, 2020 Jim Allen 0 Comments 1980, Beat Crazy, Biology, Booker T. And the MG's, Booker T. Jones, Fit, Graham Maby, I'm The Man, Joe Jackson, Joe Jackson Band, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Look Sharp!, Mad At You, Pretty Boys

That time Joe Jackson subverted Rock ‘n’ Roll but nobody noticed

Dub/Reggae Remembrance

He Was The Gorgon: RIP Bunny “Striker” Lee

October 10, 2020October 10, 2020 Greg Caz 0 Comments "Cherry Oh Baby", Bunny "Striker" Lee, Bunny Lee, Cornell Campbell, Coxsone Dodd, Delroy Wilson, Eric Donaldson, Joe Gibbs, John Holt, Johnny Clarke, Ken Parker, King Tubby, Lester Sterling, Pat Kelly, Prince Jammy, Roy Shirley, Stranger Cole, The Aggravators, the Sensations, Val Bennett

Remembering the life of a pioneer in Jamaican music, gone at 79

Dub/Reggae Remembrance Ska

Artists Remember Toots Hibbert

September 13, 2020September 14, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments Bob Marley, Brian Eno, Funky Kingston, Jimmy Cliff, Keith Richards, Monkey Man, Pressure Drop, Reggae, RIP, Ronnie Wood, The Specials, The Who, Toots and the Maytals, Toots Hibbert, Ziggy Marley

Read remembrances from Mick Jagger, The Who, Keith Richards, Brian Eno and more and listen to our exclusive mixtape honoring the life of the man who gave reggae its name

Dub/Reggae Funk New Wave Pop Punk Radio Rap Reggae

LISTEN: Debbie Harry Is 75

July 1, 2020July 1, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments 75th birthday, Blondie, Debbie Harry, Happy Birthday, KooKoo

We celebrate the birthday of a New York City icon with an exclusive solo years mixtape

Dance Dub/Reggae New Wave

Five Lessons from Bass Culture and Warm Leatherette

June 10, 2020June 10, 2020 Jeremy Shatan 0 Comments 1980, Bass Culture, Chris Blackwell, Chrissie Hynde, Grace Jones, Island Records, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Smokey Robinson, The Pretenders, Warm Leatherette

As these two Island Records essentials turn 40, let us remind you why they both remain career pinnacles for Linton Kwesi Johnson and Grace Jones

African Dub/Reggae Electronics

African Head Charge And The International Language of Drum

May 3, 2020May 3, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2020, Adrian Sherwood, Africa, African Head Charge, Bill Laswell, Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah, Brian Eno, David Byrne, Dub, Jah Wobble, King Tubby, The Clash, U-Sound

An excellent new box set chronicles the second half of Adrian Sherwood’s celebrated vision of a Psychedelic Africa

Alternative Rock Dub/Reggae Psychedelics

SUSU Deliver New Single “Let’s Get High”

April 24, 2020April 24, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments Ella Warren, Let's Get High, Liza Colby, Liza Colby Sound, Marcia Griffiths, Revel In Dimes, The Breeders, Tricky

Sparks of seductive riddims roll like waves on the NYC group’s sexy new song

Dub/Reggae Electronic Hip Hop Soul

I Am She Who Stinks of Men: Tricky’s Maxinquaye at 25

March 13, 2020March 13, 2020 Dan Weiss 0 Comments 1995, Adrian Thaws, Island Records, Martina Topley-Bird, Maxinquaye, Public Enemy, Tricky

Plenty of works can lay claim to the title of the Horniest Album of All-Time, but only rarified company like Prince or PJ Harvey can straddle both that shortlist and the one for Greatest Albums Ever Made

Dub/Reggae Electronic Experimental

Something I Wrote High to Massive Attack v Mad Professor’s No Protection Which Is Now 25, Hooray!

February 28, 2020February 28, 2020 Dan Weiss 0 Comments 1995, 3D, Caroline Records, Dub, High Fidelity, Mad Professor, Massive Attack, Mushroom, No Protection, Robert De Naja, Tracey Thorn

In other words, how to properly experience the best remix album of the 1990s for its silver anniversary

Dub/Reggae Reggae Roots Ska Soul

Bob Marley Beyond Legend: Deep Cuts from a Lifetime Listener

February 10, 2020February 10, 2020 Jeremy Shatan 0 Comments Bob Marley, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Bunny Wailer, Chris Blackwell, Coxsone Dodd, Island Records, Judy Mowatt, Lee Scratch Perry, Peter Tosh, Rita Marley, Studio One, the I-Threes

In continuance of our celebration of Bob’s 75th birthday, writer Jeremy Shatan picks his faves across all three eras of his tragically truncated career

Dub/Reggae Reggae Remembrance Roots Ska

LISTEN: The Rock & Roll Globe Presents a Bob Marley 75th Birthday Megamix

February 6, 2020February 6, 2020 Ron Hart 0 Comments 75th birthday, Bob Marley, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Dub, Legend, Playlist, Reggae, Reggae Music

In celebration of this landmark birthday for the reggae icon, a Spotify playlist that dives deep into his ocean of Irie

Classical Dub/Reggae Electronics Experimental

They Travel The Spaceways

November 6, 2019November 6, 2019 Tim Sommer 0 Comments Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Music Vol. 2: The Canon, Cluster, Craig Leon, Hans Joachim Roedelius, Lee Scratch Perry, Lunz, Lunz 3, Mr. Green, Roedelius, Super Ape vs. 緑: Open Door, Tim Story

New albums by Roedelius, Lee “Scratch” Perry, and Craig Leon push the boundaries of pop

Dub/Reggae Punk

The First Cut Is The Deepest: The Slits’ Classic Debut Turns 40

September 18, 2019November 21, 2020 Bobby Moore 0 Comments 1979, 40th Anniversary, adblock, Ari Up, Cut, Dennis Bovell, Island Records, Palmolive, Punky Reggae Party, Reggae, Teresa Pollitt, The Clash, The Police, The Ruts, The Slits, Typical Girls, Viv Albertine

They were a band willing and able to transcend their peers’ three-chord pop songs and political sloganeering to create something that really did chip away at the rock ‘n’ roll myth