Reggae News

After that there are limitless ways to release the music. An artist can release a song every week, every month, every day, or every third Monday.

Legendary Canadian roots artist JIMMY RANKIN has amassed an incredible 9 Canadian music industry award nominations in the last three weeks.

A music industry executive has said that Apple is creating 'magic money' for rightsholders with its iTunes Match service.

Naturally, for any musician to have an ability to integrate their music with such a powerful social media tool is manna from heaven.

Reggae star Buju Banton, whose real name is Mark Myrie, was convicted for conspiring to set up a cocaine deal in Florida.

A sizable crowd danced and swayed to live reggae in the park's bandstand, while others relaxed on the grass or circulated to booths with everything from food and clothing to agricultural supplies and information about medical marijuana.

A hotly awaited documentary on Bob Marley has premiered to cheers at the Berlin film festival, tracking his journey from bullied biracial Jamaican boy to reggae superstar.

Veteran reggae group Steel Pulse announced plans for a new album and a 2012 North American tour this week, beginning with a series of concert dates along the East Coast in February.

After being joined by singer Elle Varner on stage early Sunday at the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip, the band launched into Houston's 1985 hit "Saving All My Love For You" during their 8th annual pre-Grammy concert.

Dhaka Gladiators 126 for 3 beat Sylhet Royals 124 by seven wickets Scorecard Dhaka Gladiators achieved their maiden BPL victory, and it was a relatively easy one against Sylhet Royals, with seven wickets and ten balls to spare in Mirpur.

The music's industry prestigious event will be at the Los Angeles Convention Center, with the pre-telecast taking place from 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. With Stephen and Ziggy Marleys in contention, many pundits are already speculating it is a foregone conclusion that one of them will take it from the rest of the field comprising Shaggy, Israel ... (more)

In its first year, it was felt that the national committee organising reggae month was too narrow in its composition and did not fully represent different branches of the industry.

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Two Saturdays ago, Jamaicans of all social classes converged in west Kingston for the 12th staging of the Bob Marley Tribute Concert, 'Trench Town Rock'. It was the largest crowd ever.

Internationally-acclaimed hip hop artiste, Snoop Dogg will become the latest foreign act of note to visit Jamaica to record new material.

The colourful leader of the Katter Australian Party - the fun party, he proclaimed - led 57 of his 65 Queensland election candidates in a flash mob outside Parliament House in Brisbane yesterday.

This is an incredibly interesting time to be alive. Revolutionaries, like me, have been waiting for this moment for a very long time.

* Monitor kids' smartphones, which provide increased access to sites while they're outside the home, as well as the home computer.

George Lucas can't wait for the day when we're all dead and gone. I mean those of us who were alive before 1997 and have memories of Star Wars movies before the Special Editions came out.

Glenroy 'Ernie' Smith embraced the notion that there is insufficient content in the lyrics of music in contemporary Jamaican society, "The songs are filled with words but lack meaning" he said.