Veteran reggae artiste Super Beagle is riding on the attention he received after his classic single Dust A Sound Boy was sampled by Grammy Award-winning rapper Kanye West, by releasing a new album. Though he is yet to decide on a name for the album...
Bieber forks out on strippers - Justin Bieber reportedly spent US$75,000 in a strip club on Monday night.The 19-year-old singer flew from Colorado to Miami Beach for his friend Lil Scrappy's birthday party, first heading into Mansion...
The Institute of Jamaica will host its first monthly Lunch Hour Concert for this year, with the screening of the feature film, Girl Rising, tomorrow at 12:30 p.m.Girl Rising is a global movement for girls' education, based primarily around the film.
The Trelawny Multipurpose Stadium will be energised with the addition of young reggae sensations, Chronixx, Protoje and Christopher Martin to the 18th staging of the Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival. Scheduled for January 30-February 1, the organisers...
Tarrus Riley is set to release his fifth full-length album, Love Situation, on February 4.The 17-track collection is produced by Dean Fraser for Cannon ...
Today, the Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival continues its search for the best artistes to be showcased on The Art of Music Talent Stage at the festival's 2014 staging.
For about four years, the No-Maddz - Sheldon Shepherd, Everaldo Creary, O'neil Peart, and Chris Gordon - have been on a performance journey, which they dubbed 'The Trod'...
WESTERN BUREAU: Queen Ifrica is standing her ground on her views on homosexuality and marijuana and used the stage at Rebel Salute 2014 in St Ann on Saturday night to make it clear those views would find expression....
WESTERN BUREAU:Former top-flight dancehall star-turned-preacher, the charismatic Lieutenant Stitchie, had many tongues wagging on Saturday night as he unleashed a dazzling dancehall-flavoured set on the second night of Rebel Salute 2014 at Richmond...
Even though he's three months shy of his 67th birthday, reggae legend Bunny Wailer demonstrated to Rebel Salute fans that he still has the capacity for dominant performances onstage.Though many in the Rebel Salute crowd had been standing for close to 10...
While many of the top acts at Rebel Salute 2014 at Richmond Estate in St Ann provided pleasing performances on night two (Saturday), the likes of Bounty Killer, Capleton, Jah Cure, I Wayne, Bob Andy, Queen Ifrica, Pinchers,...
The legendary Bunny Wailer's statements were almost prophetic on night one of Rebel Salute at Richmond Estate in St Ann, the veteran artiste pointing out that there was a host of young acts who could carry on...
The National Council on Drug Abuse (NCDA) is issuing a strong warning to promoters and sponsors of adult and teenage parties to exercise greater vigilance over the sale of adult party tickets to minors and the service of alcoholic drinks to young...
The recently concluded Sting 30 has broken yet another record as the first locally produced show to receive over 14 million viewer impressions via Google, according to the statistics of Real Time Tracker.
Tessanne Chin took over downtown Kingston a week ago during a homecoming event that showed that, finally, she was accepted for the immense talent she is in her own land. Here are some of the highlights from the fruit of her labour.
With the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) joining as sponsor for the first time and former world heavyweight boxing champion Lennox Lewis as its patron, the 22nd annual Bob Marley Birthday Bash, slated for the MXIII Lawn, in Negril, from February 1 to 6, promises much.
Having been the first female county artiste in that genre's history to reach platinum sales with the 1977 album, We Must Believe in Magic, multi-award winning Crystal Gayle is also looking forward to another first for her - the Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival.
DownSound Records (DSR) and its owner Josef 'Joe' Bogdanovich have become synonymous with Jamaica's dancehall music over the several years that the company has been in existence.
On December 23, 2013, Mikhail Kalashnikov, creator of the famous and infamous AK-47 rifle in 1947, died in Russia. His invention went far beyond the country in which he created it and the initial purpose - defence of Kalashnikov's Fatherland - for which it had been brought into being.
