Veering away from Dub for this pair. Tradition are a United Kingdom-based reggae band. They were active in the late 1970s until 1983. They ...

The music on  House of DEB (DEB Players in Dub) was recorded in 1979. It is the Dub version of a classic roots reggae album by the D.E.B. M...

  Augustus Pablo, born Horace Swaby, is probably best known as the man who turned a children's plastic toy, the melodica, into an instru...

  Stephen Townsend was a former football hooligan. He ran with the Arsenal crew, before making the move into more serious crime & finall...

  Here is the great Prince Far-I performing his last ever gig with Suns of Arqa, before he was shot & killed upon his return to Kingston...

  Hostile Environment is the first album in over forty years from the legendary Creation Rebel, who were the original On-U Sound house band...

Last week I shared some Roy Cousins & mentioned his success as a music producer in Jamaica. The Forces of Music was the name for the mus...

  Everybody coming to the Dubtember Dubsplash should be familiar with Zion Train. They've been doing the good Dub reggae dancehall thing...

Here are two by the unlikely duo of Nat Birchall & All Breadwinner.    Birchall is a self taught tenor saxophonist from Chorley, Lanca...

  Rapha & the Noble Chanters are from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. They play a nice blend of late 70s, early 80s JA traditions with a tou...

Here's a great offering from the WordSound label.    Scarab is another project of label head Serath "Skiz" Fernando (hope I ...

  Perry needs no introduction here or anywhere music is loved. The true Upsetter.  Here are a couple as varied as the man himself.  The firs...

  Roy Cousins was already famous as a reggae great when in 1979 cataracts diminished Roy's sight to the point that he concentrated solel...

Another music project conceived & constructed by Bill Laswell with additional production by Talvin Singh (track 4 & 8), Karsh Kale (...

  I've shared Deadbeat many times here. He is always a go-to for me, I enjoy all his work, the variety & recognizability are a perfe...

  Rhoda Dakar should be known by anyone delving into JA & JA adjacent music around here. She joined the 2-Tone era all-female band The B...

  Khokhmah is the musical project of London-born Kirk Degiorgio, one of the UK's foremost electronic artists. As a member of the UK tech...

As I mentioned in the introduction to Dubtembe & elsewhere this monthr, these shares were items I first posted on a private blog that sp...

  Chuck Foster is an American reggae pioneer best known as the long-time host of the Reggae Central show on California radio station KPFK. H...

Talk about Quantum entanglement. I was working on a write up for the new Soul Revivers release Holding it Down .  Soul Revivers is a project...