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Apocalypse Rock: Toppa Top 10 Reggae Armagideon Tunes

Words by Jesse Serwer and Sherman Escoffery— The Mayan calendar predicts the world will end this year, or so many people believe, and these fears have inspired at least one forgettable movie. But when ... Read More...

Bob Deep: The Wailing Wailers’ “Ska Jerk”

Words by Jesse Serwer— Continuing on with our journey into some of Bob Marley's best rare grooves, in celebration of his 67th birthday today, we're going all the way back to the very beginning of the Wai... Read More...

Toppa Top 10: The Best Caribbean Books of 2011

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton, Rishi Bonneville and Erin MacLeod. This list began life as a sort of fall study list, a hand-picked selection of LargeUp-approved assigned reading comprising 2011 titles ... Read More...

Toppa Top 10: Top 10 Caribbean Style Icons

Words by Jesse Serwer Already proclaimed a "style icon" by Paper, Complex and, yes, even Okayplayer, Theophilus London has fashion brands tripping over themselves to work with him right now. Watching the... Read More...

Fashion Fridays: Clientele’s All-Jamaican Summer Line

Words by Jesse Serwer Its brick-and-mortar sneaker store on Lafayette Street in Soho is long gone, but New York City streetwear institution Clientele still lives on. The brand has done reggae/dancehall-inspi... Read More...

Throwback Thursdays: Peter Tosh & Mick Jagger, “(You Gotta Walk) Don’t Look Back”

Words by Jason "J-Rockaz" Orford By now you may have heard that Mick Jagger and Damian "Junior Gong" Marley are getting ready to collaborate on a musical project called Super Heavy. While we have littl... Read More...

Root of Roots: Colin Grant’s ‘The Natural Mystics’ (Book Review)

Words by Rishi Bonneville In the imagination of many, the history of Jamaica begins with Bob Marley and the Wailers—musical priests who appear magically out of a foggy, forgotten Isle. With Chris Blackwe... Read More...

Ganja Farming: Top 10 Weed Tunes for 4/20

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton, DJ Gravy and Martei Korley What were you doing at 4:20pm on 4/20? We were looking at a computer, making this Top 10 weed tunes of all time for the rest of you slacker-ass w... Read More...

Toppa Top 10: Spooky Reggae!

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton This year Halloween fell on a weekend (sorry, it had to be said) and Subatomic Sound and J. Rockaz have inspired me to compile this top 10 list of spooky reggae jams to drop... Read More...

Matzah For I

Words by Martei Korley Synagogue in Bridgeport, Barbados. We at Large Up are by no means the first to recognize the feast of the Passover. However, we definitely wanted to do so, LU-style, with a sele... Read More...

Soul Rebel – New Coffee Table Book by Photographer David Burnett

Words by: Martei Korley Ten years into the new millennium it would baffle many that "new" material from the golden age of Reggae should surface and still be relevant. It would seem that 70's Kingston has... Read More...

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