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Impressions: Images From Rebel Salute

Photos by Martei Korley— Rebel Salute is Jamaica's most significant annual reggae festival. While Sting bottles all of its hype into a single night, Sumfest splits its focus between pop and dancehall a... Read More...

LargeUp Premiere: Esprit de Corps, “Love Love Love”

Words by Jesse Serwer, Photo by Lauren Dennis— Back in April we hipped you to LA's Esprit de Corps and their wicked single "Is It Too Late." A strong, healthy blend of sweet soul vocals, an updated Studio ... Read More...

Impressions: Backstage with Damian Marley and Tarrus Riley in Dominica

Photos by Martei Korley— In between hiking to boiling lakes and swimming in hot sulfur springs (more on all that soon), LargeUp caught the 16th annual World Creole Music Festival on our trip to Dominic... Read More...

LargeUp Exclusive: Stream Beres Hammond’s New Album ‘One Love, One Life’

Words by Jesse Serwer, Images by Martei Korley— Jamaica's greatest living singer has a new album, and it is one of his strongest records in years. We're still letting it sink in but One Love, One Life... Read More...

Impressions: Images From Dominica’s World Creole Music Festival

Words by Jesse Serwer, Photos by Martei Korley— The World Creole Music Festival is an international showcase for the homegrown music genres of the Creole-speaking world, and one of the most unique music ... Read More...

LargeUp Interview: Cocoa Tea on ‘In A Di Red,’ Payola + Being a ‘Slow Leak’ Artist

Words by Sherman Escoffery, Photos by Niketa Thomas— Calvin Scott, known simply as Cocoa Tea, is a humble singer who once worked as a fisherman. In order to understand his latest album, In A Di Red (ou... Read More...

Audio: Stream Busy Signal’s “Reggae Music Again”

Words by Jesse Serwer— With his frenetic, nimble chatting style and addictive hits like "Tic Toc" and "Da Style Deh," Busy Signal has held down a steady place at the front of the dancehall pack for most of t... Read More...

LargeUp TV: Reggae Goes Country in JA

Words, Photos and Video by Martei Korley On a hot, sticky day at the end of August, we traveled to Jamaica's Breezes Negril resort to witness a unique intermingling of the country and reggae music worlds... Read More...

Foundation Tune: TOK’s Guardian Angel Program

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton, photo by Martei Korley Though ghetto musicians have a longstanding tradition of giving back to the communities they come from, lately the bar for philanthropy has been rais... Read More...

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