The Skints' new album, Swimming Lessons, draws on influences as sprawling as Bad Brains, Michael Prophet, No Doubt, Alton Ellis, Wiley, and Weezer. The album gets into crushing heartbreak, the impending doom of Brexit, surviving as an independent musician and navigating the weird world of 2019. This is the [...]
The newest single from Jesse Royal, "LionOrder" taps Protoje, fresh off his GRAMMY Nomination for “Best Reggae Album," to deliver positive and constructive messages of watching the company we keep, identifying the strength of unity in our communities, and the power to transform oneself and thus the world [...]
It was only A Matter Of Time…before Protoje would make his US TV debut. We are super proud of Protoje as he performs music from his Grammy Nominated album, A Matter Of Time, on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon tonight, May 2nd. Tune in at 11:30pm EST!! [...]
A couple of years back, the Easy Star heads got turned onto a young trio of rappers and singers who were blending reggae, hip hop, and R&B in interesting and original ways. After connecting with The Late Ones at the Cali Roots Festival and then having them open a tour for Easy [...]
Protoje releases his first music since his GRAMMY-nominated 2018 album A Matter Of Time. His newest single 'Not Another Word' drops today (4.26) across all streaming platforms. The song features a collaboration with fellow Jamaican artistes, Agent Sasco (formerly Assassin) and Lila Iké, and is co-produced with Zion I Kings. The lyrics are another hard-hitting punch from Protoje, who [...]
We're excited to share with you The Skints' latest single ‘Restless’, featuring Grammy-nominated reggae star, Protoje. ‘Restless’ follows previous single ‘Learning to Swim’, which received critical acclaim from the likes of The I (The Independent), Louder Than War, and Don Letts on BBC Radio 6 Music. Pre-order Swimming [...]
It is with great sadness that we must announce the passing of Winston Watson of The Meditations. The Meditations were the first major recording artists that we worked with, being early contributors to our first album, Easy Star Volume One, and the second album to ever come out [...]
It is with utter sadness that we just heard that Ranking Roger of The (English) Beat passed away after an illness on March 26, 2019. For the founders of Easy Star, the three English Beat records – along with so much of the music from their contemporaries in [...]
This summer marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing, so the band is celebrating that anniversary in style with complete plays of Dub Side of the Moon at every show, along with the usual cross-section of music from the rest of the band's tribute albums and [...]
Black & White gave The Green the chance to revisit some of the most popular songs in their extensive catalog and see them with new eyes, recording new, soulful acoustic arrangements that echo the intimacy you'd find hanging with the band in the green room before the show. We [...]