Nice Up (Free subscription) | 27/01/2008
Reggae music musician / producer / filmmaker, Jack Miller, has been at the world famous Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah this past week bringing his historical music movie documentary film, Dreadlock Rock to the international film community.
CD Reviews by C60Crew (Free subscription) | 19/01/2008
Bob Burnett: Don Letts, with the aid of writer David Nobakht, has released an oral history-style book, Culture Clash: Dread Meets Punk Rockers, about his active life that has intermeshed music, DJ'ing, film-making, fashion and general global cultural merging. It's been well-documented that Letts was in the thick of the London music scene circa mid-'70s where bands such as The Clash, Sex Pistols, Siouxie...
Film4 - Blog (Free subscription) | 17/01/2008
The Barbican is to present a season of Jamaican cinema, including Perry Henzell's cult classic The Harder They Come
RegnYouth Archives (Free subscription) | 24/11/2007
This reggae classic is long heralded as a cornerstone of the DJ genre. Along with U-Roy, Big Youth was one of the most influential DJs on the Jamaican scene in the 1970s, helping to develop and popularize the tradition of singers “toasting” over records (a tradition that bears a direct lineage to dancehall and rap). [...]
Afrigator (Free subscription) | 19/11/2007
Today's FREE song is presented by Manley Augustus Buchanan, born in Trenchtown, Kingston, Jamaica. He is better known as Big Youth (sometimes called Jah Youth), he is a Jamaican deejay, mostly known for his work during the 1970s. FREE SONG:'Pretty Things' Influenced by U-Roy, he started toasting on Lord Tippertone's sound system in 1970. His early singles for Lee Perry ("Mooving Version") and Phil...
Nice Up (Free subscription) | 16/11/2007
To celebrate 10 years of webcasting Jammin Reggae Virtual Radio we're giving away "Rockers It Dangerous" outfits.
You & Me on a Jamboree! (Free subscription) | 08/11/2007
Disk 1 U Roy - Rule The Nation Dennis Alcapone - DJ Choice I Roy - Whiskey Chest Lizzy - Come Back And Stay Version Scotty - Draw Your Brakes Big Youth - Cool Breeze Dillinger - Headquarters U Roy - Way Down South I Roy - Hi Jacking Big Youth - Screaming Target Dennis Alcapone - It Must Come Blake Boy - Deliver Us Charlie Ace - Creation Version Scotty - Salvation Train Winston Prince - A Place Called...
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 12/10/2007
Every Tuesday Single Minded highlights new tracks hitting stores (or the Web) this week. On Fridays, come back for rarities, remixes, mash-ups and more. Missy Elliott Medley [ Live Tribute ] Eve, Timbaland, Nelly Furtado and Ciara all pay homage to Misdemeanor at last week’s VH1 Hip-Hop Honors. Though he wasn't onstage at the time, Lupe Fiasco still forgot the words . Maroon 5, “Wake Up Call” [ Live...
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arie rommers
Big Youth was my reggae hero, when his albom dread locks dread came out, with songs like: train to Rhodesia, the b-side was in dub(instrumental)i was 14...
anonymous - 03/03/2008