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Beer Sound Nice: A Sound System Made From Recycled Red Stripe Bottles

Words by Jesse Serwer Red Stripe recently contracted artist Yuri Suzuki to create a unique, 8-foot-plus-tall sound sculpture made from thousands of recycled Red Stripe beer cans, many of which were colle... Read More...

Mixtape Mondays: Million Stylez x Safari Sound, Estelle x Don Cannon and D’Bandit

Words by DJ Gravy So while our resident Mixtape Mondays contributor DJ Theory is pretty much Amish til Northwest Massachusetts gets its power turned back, I told him I'd hold it down (and that a generato... Read More...

Mixtape Mondays: LargeUp Exclusive Premiere of So Shifty’s “Careless” + Safari Sound

Words by DJ Theory Summer nuh done yet! In fact, with Notting Hill Carnival happening as we speak and the Labor Day Weekend festivities in NYC just days away, you could say things are just heating up f... Read More...

Cockney & Yardie: Heatwave’s UK Runnings, July 2011

Words by Gabriel Heatwave Gappy Ranks is continuing to lead the way for UK dancehall reggae acts around the world. His world tour has been blazing up everywhere from San Francisco to Sydney and Miami to ... Read More...

Mixtape Mondays: Cool Hand Luke, Zions Gate, Castaparia Sound

Words by DJ Theory Cool Hand Luke, Dancehall Document Vol. 1 (via Shimmy Shimmy): London's Cool Hand Luke comes nice and easy on Dancehall Document, a cool 45 mins of 80's and 90's hits and rarities appr... Read More...

Cockney & Yardie: Heatwave’s UK Update, April 2011

Words by Gabriel Heatwave It's been a bumper few weeks for UK dancehall. In last month's update, I mentioned that there are many reasons to be optimistic about the current state of the music over here. H... Read More...

He Was There: Gappy Ranks on the Earthquake in Japan

Words by Jesse Serwer, via the Guardian A few weeks back, I had the opportunity to interview rising UK reggae star Gappy Ranks for an article, "From Harlesden to Yokohama," which appeared in today's edit... 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...

Heartical: A Lovers Rock Valentine’s Day

Words by DJ Gravy In honor of the Hallmark holiday, we had to bring you a roundup of (relatively recent) lovers tunes today (and check out last year's V-Day post for some more bedroom heat). No long talk... 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...

Toppa Top 10: Top Reggae Singles of 2010

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Mixtape Mondays: Soca Twins, Blak Ryno, Rihanna x Vybz Kartel

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton It's time. Time to start stockpiling music to play in the background of your week: Max Glazer of Federation Sound just unveiled a monsterific remix of Rihanna's latest "W... Read More...

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