Junior Byle News Today

The classic songs of Junior Byles will be featured today during 'Fi Wi Food, Fi Wi Kulcha', as part of Kingston Creative's Art Walk Festival in downtown Kingston. Guitarist Earl "Chinna" Smit...

Earl ‘Chinna’ Smith and the Binghistra Movement will launch their much-anticipated new album, Still Beating Down Babylon, this Sunday at Kingston Creative’s ArtWalk Festival. The event begins at 11 a.m. and will end at 5 p.m. This latest album...

Noah Schaffer reviews the first Sierra Nevada World Music Festival in five years.

Lee "Scratch" Perry died in August 2021, at the age of 84. His name might be familiar; if its not, dont feel bad.

Stepping Into A New Age 1980–2012 Julian Marszalek , April 13th, 2021 08:57 A boxset documenting the rise of punk-reggae supergroup New Age Steppers proves a valuable history lesson for Julian Marszalek There was always so much more to the legacy of punk than the orthodoxy that followed in its wake. Indeed, the seeds were sown right from the early days thanks to the punk’s interface with the reggae that soundtracked the early club nights as well as the covers that followed. Even Bob Marley ...

Junior Byles Junior Byles Junior Byles (Kerrie Byles Junior, most known for his Fade Away is a reggae artist born in the poor parts of Kingston, Jamaica 1948. Fade Away, with its strong spiritual warnings for materialism and egoism, was recorded in 1975 for producer Joseph Hoo Kim. It was a massive hit in Jamaica and was also a big success in the UK, and was covered five years later by among others Adrian Sherwoods New Age Steppers group and by Salmonella Dub NZ, made a spec...