New Music from the Caribbean (September/October 2002)
SOCA Raw Soca Soca Rebels featuring Shirlaine Hendrickson (Soca Rebels, SRCD1) Soca (the beautiful music genre, not even in post-World Cup...
Pan Passion: Lennox ‘Boogsie’ Sharpe
Some time in the period between the two World Wars, Trinidadians of the urban underclass transformed drums, which had been used to contain...
Roots-rockin’ St Kitts
The contrasts could hardly have been greater. The last big reggae spectacular my wife and I had caught had been in Long Beach, California,...
Reggae Xplosion
For an island of less than three million people, Jamaica has had a startling effect on global popular music. Since the world discovered Bob...
New music from the Caribbean (July/August 2002)
SOCA A Thread of Hope Chalkdust (Juba) Chalkdust (real name: Hollis Liverpool, Ph.D.) and Black Stalin (real name: Leroy Calliste, no Ph.D....
New music from the Caribbean (May/June 2002)
PICK OF THE MONTH The Soca Switch 8: The Stars of Soca Various Artists (JW Productions, jwcl238 ) Soca Colours 4 Various Artists (JW...
Beres Hammond: soul survivor
He has maintained a healthy chart presence for many years, building a steady following through captivating live performances. He is...
The best of them all: great moments in reggae music
For the true music fan, there’s nothing quite like a good live concert, and over the years — more of them than I care to remember —...
