Grammy Family?
Words by Jesse Serwer
Burning Spear accepting the Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album in 2009
Pumped for the Grammy Awards tonight? I'm not. Year after year, Grammy voters continue to prove themselves ou... Read More...
Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival
Posted by Martei Korley
The Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival is wrapping up its three days of revelry in Montego Bay tonight. Rather than actually focusing on strictly Jazz and Blues, the annual event incorpo... Read More...
LargeUp TV: Skateboarding in Jamaica with Nurdz Republic
Words by DJ Gravy
At an Anthony B session in January of 2008, I met a Rasta youth with a skateboard in hand. I was intrigued and started talking to him about it. He explained to me that he and his crew, ... Read More...
Horsemouth in Snow: Vice Revisits Classic Rockers Material
words by Tassos Brekoulakis, photos by Theodoros Bafaloukos, via Viceland
Vice mag just did a nice piece on Rockers director Theo Bafaloukos, including a mumma-lode of stills taken on-set and some be... Read More...
Blood of Haiti Mixtape
Words by Eddie STATS Houghton
When terrible shit jumps off in some other part of the world, the mind automatically goes to the people you know who are there or are somehow connected to it. For many of us... Read More...
Yabby You, 1946-2010
Words By Jesse Serwer
Had it happened any other week, more might have been said about the passing of '70s reggae pioneer Yabby You last Tuesday. But that was the same day the earthquake hit Haiti. News o... Read More...
Bring a mattress to the party! Skerrit Bwoy gets his spot blown up on Jimmy Kimmel Live…
Words by DJ Gravy
So about a year ago (January 09), I ran into Diplo at Santos Party House, he told me about his project, Major Lazer, that was almost complete. but they still needed a few more songs for... Read More...
You can’t keep a good brand down! Brand new Sizzla x Clientele Collabo Tee
Words by DJ Gravy
As strong supporters of New York's downtown Reggae / Dancehall party circuit, back in '05, Clientele collab'd with Puma for "The Ras" and had their part in throwing weekly events with... Read More...
Professor SickInHead !
Words by DJ Gravy
So one of out favorite dancers, (and people for that matter) SickInHead, from Kingston, Jamaica is currently based in Stockholm, Sweden. Next week he starts teaching a dance workshop al... Read More...
Spragga aims for the sky: Large Up exclusive!
words by Eddie STATS Houghton
The other day we linked with Super producer Salaam Remi by phone from Miami, who confirmed the rumors that he is preparing to drop a full length album from dancehall veter... Read More...
The Bobby Konders Story
Words by Jesse Serwer
Bobby Konders could probably be the subject of his own full-length documentary one day. In the meantime, the homey Dan Bruun (director of the Skerrit Bwoy doc, Temporary Sanity) recen... Read More...
Dyema catches the spirit
Whether doing the Drop Dead into an open casket or arriving in a wheelbarrow, St. James dancer--and inventor of the infamous Dutty Wine--Dyema Attitude can turn an average night into a moment in bashment history. Our gal and journalista Sarah Bentley recently grabbed a chicken soup with one of Jamaica’s wildest female entertainers and got a how-to on safely ripping out your weave piece by piece--among other trade secrets. Photos by Debbie Bragg.