Dancehall

Buju Banton is innocent

Shabba Ranks at Revolution July 2

Shabba Ranks Rides Dem Riddims and Sets Off Flashbacks at Revolution July 2

​The annual Flashback Night has revived classic Caribbean sounds in South Florida for the past five years. After a packed edition last year at Cafe Iguana Pines, the event returns this year even bigger and better at Revolution in downtown Fort Lauderdale. The guest performer of honor, as well, i ... More >>

Five Dumbest Dance Styles of the 21st Century

Tecktonik: Helping Eurotrash not get laid since 2002.​Humanity has come a long way since the Stone Age when we were dancing around fires like deranged sex-crazed monkeys. Or has it?It seems like every new decade's dance styles become more and more bizarre and less and less inhibited. In fact, thes ... More >>

Ten Photos of Buju Banton and Friends at Bayfront Park Amphitheater

Photo by David MuirWelcome back, Buju.​In just a few weeks, Buju Banton will be back in court, battling those federal cocaine conspiracy charges for a second time. But this past Sunday, dancehall's bad boy and a bunch of his best friends brought some serious Rasta righteousness to Bayfront Park ... More >>

Buju Banton plays Bayfront Park Amphitheater January 16

Photo by David MuirWelcome back, Buju.​In just a few weeks, Buju Banton will be back in court, battling those federal cocaine conspiracy charges for a second time. But this past Sunday, dancehall's bad boy and a bunch of his best friends brought some serious Rasta righteousness to Bayfront Park ... More >>

Buju Banton Rides Drug Trial Up the Charts As Fans Demand His Release

​Just ask Tupac, Lil' Wayne, or, hell, even Jim Morrison: sometimes a good stint behind bars is just what the spin doctor ordered for selling a ton of records. You may as well add Buju Banton to that list, because even as the reggae star languishes in a Tampa-area jail awaiting retrial on federal ... More >>

Mixtape Of the Week: DJ Richie Epps - Best Of The Best 2010 Official Mixtape

​The state of this year's Best Of The Best Concert remains somewhat tentative still, due to Jamaica's ongoing declared state of emergency. Still, concert organizers have said the show is still set to go as planned, and it's undeniable that the bill features a veritable who's-who of Caribbean and u ... More >>

Best of the Best 2010 Spotlight: Lady Saw

Since the mid-'80s, Lady Saw has represented for the females in the highly male-driven world of dancehall. And throughout her career, she's racked up a lot of firsts. She was the first female dancehall artist to headline major genre events outside of Jamaica, the first to win a Grammy, and the first ... More >>

Teflon Don

Since the mid-'80s, Lady Saw has represented for the females in the highly male-driven world of dancehall. And throughout her career, she's racked up a lot of firsts. She was the first female dancehall artist to headline major genre events outside of Jamaica, the first to win a Grammy, and the first ... More >>

Major Lazer: Does Switch and Diplo's new side project exploit Jamaicans?

Since the mid-'80s, Lady Saw has represented for the females in the highly male-driven world of dancehall. And throughout her career, she's racked up a lot of firsts. She was the first female dancehall artist to headline major genre events outside of Jamaica, the first to win a Grammy, and the first ... More >>

Concert Review: Major Lazer at Ultra Music Festival Day 2

Photo by Ian Witlen​Major LazerUltra Music Festival at Bicentennial Park, MiamiSaturday, March 27, 2009Better than: Ninety-nine percent of the acts at Ultra.Making fun, party music is a difficult thing to do. No, seriously. You can either go the obviously route and create straight-up track about p ... More >>

Lord of the Ants

Photo by Ian Witlen​Major LazerUltra Music Festival at Bicentennial Park, MiamiSaturday, March 27, 2009Better than: Ninety-nine percent of the acts at Ultra.Making fun, party music is a difficult thing to do. No, seriously. You can either go the obviously route and create straight-up track about p ... More >>

Yellowman Plays Respectables Saturday, June 27

Sexist lyrics and heavy beats go together like pork and beans when it comes to dancehall. There is something so good about it though. If you can cast aside the bigotry, the misogyny, the rampant and sometimes violent homophobia, and the bizarre posturing, the beats are savage, the delivery is on poi ... More >>

The Name Says It All

Sexist lyrics and heavy beats go together like pork and beans when it comes to dancehall. There is something so good about it though. If you can cast aside the bigotry, the misogyny, the rampant and sometimes violent homophobia, and the bizarre posturing, the beats are savage, the delivery is on poi ... More >>

Rastaman Vibration

This year’s Caribbean Fest returns to its roots.

What Goes Around, comes around

This year’s Caribbean Fest returns to its roots.

Around the Voice - Dancehall Violence, Billy Bob Thornton and The Art of Screaming

This year’s Caribbean Fest returns to its roots.

Dancehall Devastation

It’s a Reggae Explosion; leave your skates at home

Green's Video Gold

A hometown boy is the hip-hop glitterati's director du jour

Bounty Killer and Barrington Levy Throwback Video

A hometown boy is the hip-hop glitterati's director du jour

Back in Black

A hometown boy is the hip-hop glitterati's director du jour

Viva la Rebelution!

Tanya Stephens separates the ladies from the girls

Miami Extra-Loaded

Tanya Stephens separates the ladies from the girls

The Untouchable Concert

Tanya Stephens separates the ladies from the girls

Don't Stop the Carnival

There is no downtime for soca music's international ambassador

Calibe

There is no downtime for soca music's international ambassador

Destiny's Child and Yellowman

There is no downtime for soca music's international ambassador

Lava Man

Meet I Wayne, author of "Can't Satisfy Her" and roots reggae's latest champion

Locos por Juana

Música P'al Pueblo MP

Bob Marley Caribbean Festival

Música P'al Pueblo MP

Jah High Towa

Poor Man Cry Crown Champion

Lady Saw

Strip Tease VP Records

BEST PLACE TO GET DREADLOCKS

Happy 2 B Nappy Boutique

Dancehall Rasta

With King Man, Everton Blender mixes up lovers rock with roots reggae soul

Island Man

Chris Blackwell moves into the digi-Web-world-global-video age

City Slackers

Poverty, dancehall, and sound systems in modern-day Kingston, Jamaica

New Year's Revolutions

Diwali lives on, but new riddims for the New Year will put ants and more in your pants

Dancehall Harmony

TOK is no barbershop quartet

Beenie Man

Tropical Storm "Virgin"

Various Artists

Reggae Gold 2002 "VP Records"

Rollin' on the River

Tobacco Road keeps on turnin', Café Nostalgia keeps on burnin'

No More Resistance

Lovers rocker Beres Hammond is back in Jamaican hearts

Baby Cham

Wow ... the Story (Madhouse Records/Artists Only!)

Best Local Songwriter

Raul del Sol

The Sweet Buy and Buy

Raul del Sol

News of the Weird

Raul del Sol

Letters

Raul del Sol

The Godfather of Reggae

Clint O'Neil, legendary radio DJ and guardian of Jamaica's musical heritage, stirs it up at 'LRN

Concert Calender

Clint O'Neil, legendary radio DJ and guardian of Jamaica's musical heritage, stirs it up at 'LRN