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Dancehall artist Gaps 7G has become the third male dancehall act to publicly endorse the COVID-19 vaccine. But the young rhyme-slinger has done one better as he has already been inoculated against the COVID-19 virus. He tweeted a photo of his vaccination card and his rolled up sleeve to show his support for the vaccination drive in New York. Gaps 7G got his jab on Tuesday at York College in Queens, NY. “I made up my mind to be one of the first people to get my vaccine shot, mi have the second one fi get in a month time, and mi just a gwaan mask up and do the right ting till then,” he said...

01 Linton Kwesi Johnson LKJ in Dub (Island, 1980) Dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson made his mark in the late 70s with his lyrical swipes at racist society. Here his bassist and bandleader Dennis Bovell (arguably the foremost British reggae/dub producer) remixes two of LKJ’s previous albums, sonically sculpturing these tunes into pulsing rhythms that could work on the dance floor. Johnson’s voice is largely absent, only occasionally echoing across the dub. 02 King Tubby This album – and its companion, Presents the Roots of Dub – features The Aggrovators, the superb studio band employed b...

The Wailers have now passed into memory after the death of the pioneering group's final living member Bunny Wailer, was confirmed.

Bunny Wailer, passing of a legend “The passing of Bunny Wailer is a great loss for Jamaica and for reggae," said Jamaica's Prime Minister Andrew Holness (Photo by Roy Rochlin/Getty Images) THE PASSING of reggae music icon Neville Livingston, who was better known as Bunny Wailer, earlier this week, has truly signalled the end of an era in Jamaican music that will be hard to replicate. Bunny Wailer, the last survivor of the legendary musical group The Wailers, which included Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, died in Kingston, Jamaica on Tuesday, March 2 where he had been admitted to hospital for s...

Rolling Stone Peter Tosh Master Tape Rediscovered in ‘Studio 17’ Doc Clip 2019 documentary, now available to stream in U.S., focuses on “Lost Tapes” unearthed from legendary Jamaican studio Randy’s Records By A lost Peter Tosh master recording is unearthed in this clip from Studio 17 – The Lost Reggae Tapes, a 2019 documentary about the Jamaica’s legendary Randy’s Records studio. “Formed by a Chinese-Jamaican couple in the early ‘60s in Kingston, Jamaica, Randy’s Records started as a used record store, then grew to house a reggae recording studio in the upstai...