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Post-Game: Trinidad Carnival Roundup

Words by Eddie STATS Houghon and Jillionaire, via The Guardian UK Through the kind links of our UK correspondent Gabriel Heatwave of the London-based Heatwave crew Jillionaire and myself were tapped to p... Read More...

Mixtape Mondays: Carnivaaaaaal!!

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton It's that time again. Time to start planning the side-projects with which you can waste time for the rest of the week. Might we suggest, imagining that you are at Carnival ... Read More...

Media Watch: Machel Montano + Trinidad Carnival on NPR

Words by Jesse Serwer Sundays in the Serwer household rarely start before 1 PM. It's immaterial whether Saturday night involved late-night partying or re-runs on the couch: This is when I catch up on all... Read More...

Super Soca: Tiny Winey + “Black & Yellow” Poirier refix

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton We don't usually cover local events on here but as long we are covering local events (see previous post) we have to give a bligh to the Tiny Winey soca party kicking off tom... Read More...

Tropical Discotheque: The Mighty Shadow “Dat Soca Boat”–Free Download and Event Tickets!

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton The masters of records over at Strut have been on our favorite-label list for a minute. Though they are most notorious for their compilations of essential Afrofunk and Brazi... Read More...

Throwback Thursdays: Machel Montano & Xtatik, “Big Truck”

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton Tomorrow is Carnival, people, or at least the Soca Monarch competition at Queen's Oval Park that kicks it off is. And since perpetual top dog Machel Montano (now in HD) seem... Read More...

Cockney & Yardie: Heatwave 2010 UK Bashment Update

Words by Gabriel Heatwave with additional reporting by Dan Bean After Notting Hill Carnival post-game breakdown and a successful NYC jaunt, our UK lime experts from the Heatwave crew have graciously agreed... Read More...

Charge Up: New Skinny Fabulous Video with Machel Montano

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton As it was foretold, so it has come to pass. The only thing about this 1000 bpm adrenaline-shot of a video for "Duracell Plus" that does not deliver exactly what was promised... Read More...

Free Up: Natalie Storm Goes Soca on “Nuh Watch Me”

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton Good morning! In case you hadn't noticed, Natalie Storm has been killing it this week, taking North America by um, you know. Last Friday she and fellow badda gal Tifa stole ... Read More...

Astro-Guyanese: Eddie Hooper’s Caribbean Space Disco

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton, via Ghetto Bassquake The tropical scientists over at Ghetto Bassquake just put us up on this brilliant reissue from Guyanese soca and soul giant Eddie Hooper, getting space... Read More...

Bunny Rock: Behind the Scenes of “Duracell Plus” with Skinny Fabulous and Machel Montano

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton Last week soca monarch Skinny Fabulous leaked this 'making of' look at the forthcoming video for his massive tune "Duracell" on the Hunny Bunny riddim--built from the sa... Read More...

Don Dada: Remembering Chutney Godfather Sundar Popo

Words by Rishi Bonneville Ten blocks of brightly-painted shops along Liberty Avenue, strung between the last stop on the A-train and the Van Wyck Expressway in Queens, are the vertebrae that together for... Read More...

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