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TONIGHT SEES the start of a series of Kush Films special screenings for historical reggae documentary film, Studio 17: The Lost Reggae Tapes.

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Premiere: Watch Skip Marley’s ‘Let’s Take It Higher’ Documentary By Boomshots Vibe 3/12/2021 Rastaman Vibration, released almost 45 years ago, in April 1976. In the years before Legend, Bob Marley & the Wailers’ 1984 greatest hits collection, which remains the best-selling reggae album of all time, Rastaman Vibration was the record that broke Marley to American audiences, becoming the first Marley LP to reach the Top 10 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. On the second track, “Roots Rock Reggae,” Marley took new listeners by the hand and introduced them to a new sound from th...

Murda She Wrote: February 2021 Celebrating Reggae Month with dancehall pioneers, legends and rising stars — U-Roy, Shabba Ranks, Dexta Daps and Blvk H3ro. U-Roy in New York in 1995. Credit: David Corio/Redferns. “Here I come, with love and not hatred,” sang Dennis Emmanuel Brown on his 1977 classic “Here I Come,” a.k.a. “Love & Hate,” one of the songs that earned him the title the Crown Prince of Reggae. “Surely goodness and mercy shall follow I,” Dennis went on, “all the days of I life.”  His musical mantra rings truer than ever in these crazy times — and especially ...

Equal Rights. “As long as you're a Black man, you're an African.”  The song is classic Tosh—a forceful declaration of unity amongst Black people all over the diaspora, reaching out from Kingston, Jamaica stretching across the Caribbean to the UK, Europe, Canada, and the United States of America. “No mind your nationality,” Tosh goes on. “You have got the identity of an African.” Tosh’s message resonates with particular power as we come to the close of yet another, Black History Month, which happens to have also coincided with Reggae Month, a worldwide celebration of Jamaican ...