Everyone knows Jamaica’s first Dancehall superstar Yellowman’s signature tune Zungguzungguguzungguzeng however the album of the same title is perhaps lesser…
This holiday season, Anthony Fairclough aka Papa Michigan, has released a main version plus a bilingual Spanish remix of the classic The Christmas Song. The main single is entirely in English while the remix is in Spanish and English....
It's the summer of 1979 and Rub A Dub Style, a song by Papa Michigan and General Smiley, is rocking dances and radio in Jamaica. The duo went on to have bigger hits in Nice Up The Dance and Diseas...
Dancehall artiste, Moses ‘Beenie Man’ Davis, recorded his debut single, Too Fancy, with producer Henry ‘Junjo’ Lawes in 1981. His Bunny Lee-produced debut album, The Invincible Beenie Man: The Ten Year Old DJ Wonder, was released in 1983 and that...
VP/Greensleeves Records will celebrate the 40th anniversary of John Holt’s iconic Police in Helicopter LP by issuing a rare 1983 12-inch single mix – informally known as the Sirens Mix – to streaming. It is presented in its original form alongside...
Police In Helicopter , the song that earned John Holt a hard-core dancehall following, is being reissued 40 years after its release by VP/Greensleeves Records.
On September 8, the comp...
Yellowman’s classic, Zunggunzungguguzungguzeng — the dancehall song with arguably the longest title — turns 40 this month. Forty years ago, in June 1983, Greensleeves Records rode the wave of the hottest emcee in reggae and dancehall, Yellowman...
WHENEVER a Jamaican artiste wins a Grammy Award, their musicians rarely get any acknowledgement. Guitarist Ranoy Gordon, however, had plenty to celebrate on Sunday when Kabaka Pyramid won Best Reg...
REGGAE has an impressive line of bass guitarists. Errol "Flabba Holt" Carter is one of them, and arguably the most prolific.
Flabba Holt is founder and leader of the Roots Radics Band which made ...