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LargeUp TV: Jimmy Cliff at Miss Lily’s Variety, Pt. 2

Words by Jesse Serwer:::Photo by Kevin Ornelas:::Video by Martei Korley and Kevin Ornelas In the second in our series of clips from Jimmy Cliff's performance inaugurating the "Radio Lily" series at Miss ... 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...

Mixtape Mondays: WILDLIFE! x Gold Rush Intl, Deadly Dragon, Old Money

Words by DJ Theory Broadcasting live from Palawan, Philippines this week, we have another generous edition of Mixtape Mondays at hand, with some the biggest forwards from today, tomorrow and some dusted-... Read More...

Roots Reggae: Jimmy Cliff X The Roots Live at Highline Ballroom

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton If you enjoyed Jimmy Cliff's appearance with The Roots on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon earlier this week, then your head would surely have exploded had you been in the house... Read More...

RIP: Farewell to Barry Llewellyn of the Heptones

Words by Martei Korley Jamaican music suffered another great loss with the passing last week of Barry Llewellyn, a founding member of the long-running rocksteady and reggae vocal group, the Heptones. ... Read More...

Mixtape Mondays: DJ Autograph, Secure Dem, Fire 4 Hire

Words by DJ Theory When it comes to Caribbean music in North America, New York City, Toronto and California's Bay Area are definitely three of the primary zones of activity. This week we've got three mi... Read More...

Roots Maneuver: Talking Ska, Reggae + Movies with Fishbone’s Norwood Fisher

Words by Jesse Serwer Last month I caught a screening of Everyday Sunshine, a documentary about Fishbone, one of the most eclectic and original bands to come out of the U.S. during my youth. Not only did... Read More...

Mixtape Mondays: Jillionaire, Jah T Jr, DJ Select

Words by DJ Theory Jillionaire, mix for Big Chill Presents (via Hipsters Don't Dance): Our globe-skating Trinidadian contributor Jillionaire has found himself in London at the moment to drop some tropical k... Read More...

Toppa Top 10: Reggae/Dancehall’s Greatest One-Hit Wonders

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton and Jesse Serwer As with any other nation or genre, the last-half century of Jamaican music, from ska and rocksteady to reggae and dancehall, is littered with hit records ... Read More...

Mixtape Mondays: Poirier, Favi x DJ Santero, Claire Darrow Mosier

Words by DJ Theory Big league business meets up-and-coming talent, East meets West, worlds and genres collide—it must be Mixtape Mondays. This week, Canada, NYC, the Bay and beyond find their way into the m... Read More...

Now Things: Talking Global Caribbean Sounds with Chicago’s MC Zulu

Words by Erin MacLeod Photo by Jessica Flavin Chicago is not really known as a hotbed of Caribbean music, but the Windy City’s MC Zulu has been pumping out some of the most interesting tropical tunes fo... Read More...

Heds and Dreds: Remembering The Big Belly Gorgon, Heavy D

Words by Jesse Serwer Yesterday came the sad word that Dwight Errington Myers—Heavy D—died suddenly at the young age of 44. The news stings on several levels. Coming up on hip-hop in New York in the la... Read More...

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