SFPL’s Local Music Streaming Platform The 2024 Bay Beats Collection will be launched on Saturday, November 2, 2024. The new collection will be available on the Bay Beats website at https://baybeats.sfpl.org/ starting at 12 am, November 2, 2024. Celebrating its second year as SFPL’s popular local music platform, Bay Beats presents a four-band concert in […]
Pauzeradio began in 2009 as an archive for the Unique Reggae Mix Show, allowing listeners to stream any of the radio shows created since its inception. In 2012, it expanded by adding a blog section that features album reviews, press releases for new reggae albums, reggae artist biographies, and more. By 2013, due to Gav […]
The Chronicles of ZOOLOOK TGSNT aka STONEFRENGE Back on September 9, 2004, Nicholas Da Silva, known professionally as ZOOLOOK, teamed up with UK-based Naked Penguin Boy Ltd. to create TGSNT Miniball, a Flash-based foosball game as part of a viral marketing campaign to introduce the return of The Greatest Story Never Told Flash storytelling competition, […]
Martin Luther King Jr. – Facts an’ T’ings January 15, 2024, marks the 95th birthday of Baptist minister and Social Activist Martin Luther King, Jr., the prominent voice in the civil rights movement. A champion for advancing civil rights, Martin Luther King, Jr. chose nonviolence and civil disobedience to address the political and social injustice […]
Mad Professor and Ariwa Sounds Reggae legends Mad Professor, Channel One & Sandra Cross announced for Ariwa Sounds spectacle “I’m so happy to be bringing the best of Ariwa Sounds together under one roof. Revisiting Fairfield Halls for the first time since 2015, with my work being honoured as part of Croydon’s year as London’s […]
International Reggae Poster Contest 2024 Jamaican roots of hip-hop On the 50th anniversary of hip-hop in 2023, the International Reggae Poster Contest celebrates the innovative Clive Campbell, aka DJ Kool Herc, who laid the foundation of the genre. Born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1955, Campbell migrated at the age of 12 to the Bronx, New […]
Seasoned Roots artist Christos DC has been a staple in the conscious Reggae seen since the mid-2010s. Now, he’s back with another stunning release: small, perfectly formed, and carrying on the mantra of ‘honest music’ that this artist has lived by. Matchbox EP, released via Christos’s label Honest Music, sees this accomplished singer, songwriter, and […]
Hearsay Media Trombone man: ska’s fallen genius A comic book series on the life and times of Don Drummond Written/created by Adam Reeves Illustrations by versions (Costantinos Pissourios). Trombone Man: Ska’s Fallen Genius is the tragic story of one of Jamaica’s greatest and most influential musicians, Don Drummond, a trombonist with 1960s ska giants, the […]
Photography By: Beth Lesser/UrbanImage Meet King Tubby, the Dub inventor who reshaped Jamaica’s musical landscape in the late ’60s. Born Osbourne Ruddock on January 28, 1941, in Kingston, Jamaica, the Jamaican sound engineer greatly influenced the development of DUB in the 1960s and 1970s. IRIE presents some fascinating Facts an ‘Tings about the musical legend, […]
Sam Nzima How One Photograph Changed the World Photography By: AP Images IRIE Magazine remembers legendary South African photographer, Sam Nzima, who passed away on May 12, 2018, at Rob Ferreira Hospital in Mbombela (Nelspruit) after a short illness. He was 83. Sam Nzima is best known for capturing the iconic photograph of the Apartheid […]
Today marks the 160th anniversary of Cinco de Mayo, a day that is often confused with Mexico’s Independence Day, Día de la Independencia. However, that official holiday, which commemorates the Mexican War of Independence against Spain, is September 16 (1810). Cinco de Mayo is often celebrated as a day of Mexican heritage and culture, but […]
“The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.” CARL SAGAN, Academic, Astronomer, Scientist (1934–1996) Medical marijuana has been legalized in 33 states, including the District of Columbia and Guam. […]