Last Don documentary by FIRST team members screens at Reggae Film Festival at Hilton Hotel tomorrow.

Our friend Sherman wrote recently about the cancer affecting Jamaican music. This is him reminiscing about when Cancer meant Stone Love and the sounds still ruled the Dancehall…

Sherman
Jamaican music has caught up to the politics of country to be a broken wasteland of noise that is filled with incompetent, narcissistic people who have no allegiance or care to anything but themselves. The thing is that everyone wants to act like this just happened when it didn’t. This cancer of noise has been [...]

BALOJI feat. KONONO n1 – KARIBU YA BINTOU from BALOJI on Vimeo.
The first time you watch this, turn off the volume. Instead, imagine Dancehall as the soundtrack and ask: ‘Why can’t local videos be this good?’. The budget doesn’t look prohibitively expensive, perhaps only the talent of the crew. Come to think of it, the [...]

Racquel Jones, poet
Part of Reggae Month, the Jamaica Reggae Industry Association (yes, there is one) is holding a series of free concerts every Wednesday.
Tonight, 8:00 pm, is Dub Night at Edna Manley Arts College on Arthur Wint Drive.
And the line-up is impressive: Sly Dunbar, Earl Chinna Smith, Leroy Wally, Uprising Band, Ras Takura, History Man, [...]