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Toppa Top 10: South x Southwest Edition

Words by Jesse Serwer and Eddie STATS Houghton This time every year the US music industry shuts itself down and heads to Austin, Texas for the annual orgy of live music, informal politicking and drink-... Read More...

Spring Bruk: Drake and Mavado Onstage at BritJam

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton via Octobers Very Own We TOLD YOU Drake was on some dancehall shit (and then we told you again). Everybody's favorite child-actor turnt rapper turnt singer gave full vent to... Read More...

Thanks & Praise: Gappy Ranks’ ‘Coulda Runaway’ Video + Japan Travelogue

Words by Jesse Serwer Thanks & Praise is not just the title of Gappy Ranks' upcoming LP for VP/Greensleeves: It's what the U.K. singjay is giving after experiencing the calamitous earthquake that has... Read More...

Rest In Peace: Smiley Culture

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton Throwback Thursdays has come two days early this week, for the worst of reasons. We've just received news that Smiley Culture, innovator of the MC style of reggae in the UK,... Read More...

LargeUp Exclusive: Preview of New Natalie Storm Single, “Hotta”

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton The newest member of the LargeUp extended editorial family, Natalie Storm is clearly not planning to give up her day-job as a dancehall queen and become a full-time garrison... Read More...

Tempted to Taste: LargeUp Exclusive Look at Miss Lily’s

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton and Jason "J-Rockaz" Orford As we mentioned in our recent Limonious post, we have been haunting Miss Lily's quite a bit lately. If you're not hip to it yet, that's downtown ... Read More...

Mixtape Mondays: Penthouse Records, Teflon, DJ Arems + More

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton If you are Trini, Dominican, Haitian, Colombian or just like to get mad you are probably suffering from an extended Carnival hangover this Monday, which means you might need... Read More...

Addi The Teacher Part Few: Video of Vybz Kartel’s Lecture at UWI

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton, via DJMixLive JA.com As we reported earlier this week Vybz Kartel lived up to his Addi Di Teacha appellation yesterday by accepting Carolyn Cooper's invitation to lecture t... Read More...

Fashion Fridays: Shimmy Shimmy x Shabba Ranks

Pixels cross the Atlantic at the speed of light (or at least the speed of dial-up) while physical package tek the slow boat. Which is why even though dancehall-friendly Shimmy Shimmy blog launched itself as... Read More...

Throwback Thursdays: Shinehead’s “Jamaican In New York”

Words by Jesse Serwer If you were getting your music information from MTV in the late '80s, you might have thought that Shinehead was the only reggae/dancehall artist out. The square Cazal aficionado was... Read More...

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...

Post-Game: The Sights & Sounds of Haiti Kanaval

Words by Erin MacLeod and Etienne Côté-Paluck It’s Mardi Gras, but Haiti’s been partying for quite sometime. From mid-January, every Sunday there have been pre-Carnival—or Kanaval—parades. Marching bands... Read More...