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New Music From The Skints
The Skints have clawed their way up from the depths of the underground London punk/ska scene to becoming a unique fixture on the global reggae stage. Drawing influences as wide as soul, pop, grime, and hardcore, their original brand of โtropical punkโ has seen them evolve into one of the hardest working and most respected bands in music. The bandโs new single โLearning to Swimโ, released January 18th, fuses the tenderness of lovers rock, the catchiness of pop with the urgency of [...]
New Single “Light The Fuse” From Gentleman’s Dub Club
The latest single from Gentleman's Dub Club is a euphoric journey through time, space and bass.ย Diving straight into the deep end with the ruckus that is โLight The Fuse,โ the record is set up with rumbling heavyweight bass movements that naturally match the controlled chaos of โEye Of The Stormโ and โMidnight Healing.โ Meeting every unique end of the spectrum, Gentlemanโs Dub Club once again draw on their incredible ability to fuse sounds together until they feel like theyโve always belonged. We're [...]
Michael Goldwasser and Easy Star All-Stars’ Remix of Kelly Clarkson’s “Heat”
Michael Goldwasser, producer ofย Easy Star All-Starsย best selling & critically acclaimed records withย Dub Side of the Moonย andย Radiodread, has been working on a slew of Reggae remixes. What started withย Jason Mrazโsย โHave It All,โย led toย Janelle Monaeโsย โI Like Thatโย and now a remix ofย Kelly Clarksonโsย โHeat.โย For theย Remix,ย Goldwasser told The Pier Magazine:ย โAs with all of the Easy Star All-Stars tribute albums, I try to envision the original as if it was recorded in Jamaica in the late 70โs, early 80โs, with a room full of great musicians. So [...]
Mortimer’s song “Careful” was selected to Apple Music’s Best of 2018 playlist!
Mortimer's song โCarefulโย is a cautionary tale, with Mortimer drawing on personal experiences as he ponders trust and betrayal amongst family and friendships.ย Mortimer states, โI wrote this song to express my own experiences with friends and family. Iโve learned that people arenโt always what they seem, and blood doesnโt necessarily mean family. We need to stop confusing loving someone with loving an idea of someone, and the sooner we can tell the two apart will be the day we start to learn to love [...]
Congratulations Protoje on his Grammy nomination for Best Reggae Album – A Matter Of Time.
He has been called many things before. Singer, songwriter. Pioneer. A driving force behind important creative shifts in Jamaica. Perpetual student of music. Philosopher, mentor, brother.ย Miss B son.ย If there were a thousand ways to describe recording artist Protoje, now there are a thousand and one.ย Call him GRAMMY-nominated. Theย Recording Academyโขrecently released itsย nominees for the 61st GRAMMY Awardsยฎย with a pool of five for the "Best Reggae Album" category. Among them isย A Matter Of Time, Protoje's 4th studio album. The response has been a new wave [...]