IRIE We Come in Peace (And Love) Meet IRIE, the virtual reggae band of STONEFRENGE (ZOOLOOK universe), created by multidisciplinary artist and musician Nicholas Da Silva, known professionally as ZOOLOOK. The six-member band consists of two fictional members, Kaya and Leno from STONEFRENGE, along with four actual musicians: vocalists Zoe Mazah and Razaman, bassist and […]
Roxanne Stonefrenge: Black in Space Meet Roxanne, the alter ego of Michelle, Editorial Director of IRIE. Michelle performs many roles as a partner in IRIE Magazine alongside Nicholas Da Silva, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of IRIE. She determines the content for each issue of IRIE with Nicholas, including the monthly playlists. Still, most importantly, Michelle works […]
Zoe Mazah & Gwari Music Soul Rebel Meet ZOE MAZAH… Zoe was born in Monrovia/Liberia to a Liberian woman and a German man. Due to life circumstances, Zoe was brought to Germany as a child and lived with her German aunt, husband, and son, who became her parents and brother. Zoe grew up in a […]
Razaman Intergalactic Rebel Cosmic greetings from the center of creation, I & I Razaman! A starship sent I mon a telepathic message while flying through our dimension. The message… “Motivate them”. Many are called, the chosen are few, and our story in reggae music blasted off after a spaceship hovered down to share infinity. Our […]
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 […]