Sid Bucknor Rob Oil Sid Bucknor, a man that can be dubbed as the ingenious mind responsible for the finished mixes and editing of the overall sound and the prolific creations of the reggae genre, is a name that is synonymous with reggae music of the ’60s and ’70s. If you own a vintage reggae […]
Loretta Lynch All the Right Regrets Photography by: Myles Boisen Loretta Lynch is “Americana Noir.” It’s a little tear in your beer, a little knife in the back, a twist of rusty barbed wire wrapped around an earnest heart. Lush three-part harmonies, raucous surf-tinged guitar burnish Country-Folk-Blues originals, and y’all-ternative takes on 80’s punk and […]
HAL-LE™ AI Astronaut Assistant HAL-LE, pronounced (hal-lee), is not just an AI voice behind ZOOLOOK’s STONEFRENGE universe. She is one-half AI Astronaut Assistant (animated) for the OSST spacecraft, SR-420, and one-half vocalist for the dub reggae artist ZOOLOOK. As a multidisciplinary artist and musician, ZOOLOOK’s STONEFRENGE: Black in Space blurs the lines between mediums to […]
Sgt. Remo Life is for Living Sgt. Remo, born Sergio Ortiz, is a native of Juarez, Mexico. He is a Mexican-American reggae singer known throughout the U.S. and Latin America for his powerful music and energetic performances. He began performing in the early 2000s. The unlikely reggae artist emerged on the international reggae scene in […]
Stonefrenge The Fourth Kind Photography: Veston Smith On October 31, 2021, IRIE’s founder and Editor-in-chief, Nicholas Da Silva, known professionally as ZOOLOOK, released ‘Stonefrenge,’ the second song from his upcoming debut album, STONEFRENGE: Black in Space. The track would enter the Australia iTunes Top 100 Reggae Songs chart at #76. Flash forward to April 20, […]
Miranda XX No Woman, No Cry Photography: Andrew Merritt Meet Miranda XX, a British Singer-Songwriter who sings authentic Reggae music. She had written an RnB song which was converted to reggae music by Asher-E Productions with the support of Empress T on her radio station (Always reggae radio). The track, Feelings, was well-received with great […]
David Cairol Reggae Music After two studio albums well received by both the public and media and hundreds of concerts all over France, Europe, and across the Atlantic, David Cairol has returned to the roots of his musical emotions in Jamaica, a place where a piece of his heart has always been. The organic beat […]
Dubmatix ReWired Dubmatix is back with a scorching studio album titled ReWired. The ReWired title concept is about not only rewiring my studio for each album – using different gear, re-organizing, and always having to rewire everything as you end up with cables that connect to nothing hanging everywhere. But it’s also about rewiring the […]
Music is Jo Elle’s home, and her heart has been beating to reggae for years. The passionate singer and songwriter from Switzerland endows her songs with a zest for life, sings about different aspects of it, and nestles in your ear with her suavely smoky and soulful voice. Jo Elle grew up in rural Münsingen […]
Over the past three decades, Jamaican-born and raised but now UK-based reggae artist Don Hartley has been recording and performing his brand of conscious Jamaican music to the delight of roots reggae fans worldwide. Notwithstanding, his first venture as an independent producer/artist in 1990 was a lovers rock single ‘That Lady’ on his own Rising […]
Bucureci Obeah is a curator, musicologist, art director, and entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in radio, music, and visual art. His portfolio includes multi-media projects as diverse as Creionetica, Tunesinourheads, Abator Industries, Crowd Control, Black Rhino Music & Radio, and A4Activism. Bucureci was a collaborator of Radio Guerrilla and Electronic Beats by Telekom […]
Our September REGGAE feature shines a spotlight on a select group of artists who have become citizens of STONEFRENGE, the holy grail of Earth-like planets, also known as Earth’s twin. STONEFRENGE is a universe created by multidisciplinary artist Nicholas Da Silva, aka ZOOLOOK, who is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of IRIE. What is STONEFRENGE? […]