Battle of Adwa On March 1 every year, Ethiopia celebrates the Victory of Adwa (also spelled Adowa), the climactic battle of the First Italo-Ethiopian War. The Ethiopian force led by Emperor Menilek II defeated the invading Italian forces on Sunday, March 1, 1896, in a decisive victory that prevented Italy’s campaign to expand its colonial […]
IRIE Guide Roots, Culture & Love™ The IRIE Guide is happening… On March 20, 2022, we will officially launch the IRIE Guide featuring Kaptin Barrett, Head of Music for one of the UK’s largest independent music festivals, Boomtown Fair, on the cover! IRIE Guide will be a lifestyle publication dedicated to Roots, Culture & Love. […]
Soom T GOOD Photography by: Danilo Moroni Soom T is a Scottish singer of Indian origin. After having campaigned alongside Y Network, a group of young representatives of Glasgow ghettos aiming to change their city, Soom T decides to devote her life to music to denounce injustices and talk about her daily struggles through militant […]
Dr. Sley Light Up The Throne Photography by: SUISEKA Kingsley Tingwei Ngu, aka DR. SLEY, was born in Buea, a city located at the foot of Mount Cameroon. He was the fifth child in a Christian family of seven. More and more, he discovered music as a weapon and a tool to express his true […]
Esther Sings I Want To Live Esther Sings, born Esther Antoine in the Caribbean Country of St. Lucia, is a singer, songwriter, author, entrepreneur, and recording artist residing in New York for the past 20 years. As a youngster in her homeland St. Lucia, she started singing at the age of eight, heavily influenced by […]
Cristiana Bucureci Can’t Get You Out of My Head Collage by: Cristiana Bucureci The independent label The Sound of Art to Come presents Romanian audio-visual artist Cristiana Bucureci’s debut EP, EROS. The album is produced in collaboration with the international producers: Transglobal Underground, Prince Fatty, and Marius Costache & Lil Obeah. This is a sound […]
State of Satta Moonlight Bubaloo Photography by: Misha Warren State of Satta is a seven-piece dub-fusion band based in England, brought together by a collective love of dub and reggae. The band fuses the rhythms of one-drop and steppas, bone-shaking bass lines, and resonant vocals to create a distinct groove-driven sound. Founded from the ashes […]
Generous Thieves The Severity of Where We’re Going The Severity of Where We’re Going, the debut EP from newcomers Generous Thieves, is the culmination of an unlikely collaboration. The three-piece band wrote and recorded the five-song offering that blends reggae, hip-hop, and gospel during a time when live music was impossible. The Thieves took advantage […]
Lil Obeah From Transylvania Collage by: Cristiana Bucureci *Andrei and Cristiana Bucureci with the Lil Obeah from Transylvania LP The independent label The Sound of Art to Come launches Lil Obeah’s debut album called Lil Obeah from Transylvania. The album is made in collaboration with international producers Transglobal Underground, Dub Colossus, and Marius Costache. Additionally, […]
Soom T Yes My People IRIE’s March 2022 edition of RELEASES is here featuring Soom T’s ‘Yes My People’ from her upcoming studio album, ‘Good’, on the cover! The incredible Scottish MC Soom T, with her inimitable style and incisive flow that earned her the title of “Raggamuffin Queen,” announces her highly anticipated new album […]
Friendly Fire Music Rastamantic Riddim Friendly Fire Music’s latest release is more than a riddim album; it’s a set of three singles on the Rastamantic Riddim, a horn-driven roots riddim played live by Friendly Fire Band. To kick-off, currently, one of Jamaica’s best songwriters, Duane Stephenson, lends his plaintive voice to Tenament Yard, which resonates […]