Jamaican music is suddenly the ubiquitous chaser to this summer's nasty shot of a heatwave. Rising star Cham's "Ghetto Story" single was a monster hit in Jamaica; an album of the same name was ...
In 2016, Zak Starkey — musician and son of Ringo Starr — and his Sshh bandmate Sharna “Sshh” Liguz teamed with Eddie Vedder and a slew of reggae legends, including Wailers drummer Carlton “Santa Davis ...
Fifty years ago, the world was introduced to a new sound, a sound from Jamaica. Britain would be the first of the international markets to embrace this sound, thanks to the work of Trojan Records, a ...
Squeezing a decade of reggae music, seven key producers of the 60s, on to a single 20-track CD is a foolhardy, some would say impossible, task. Remarkably, Melanin People have done it by ...
From the label's humble beginnings in a rundown London warehouse to its ascendance as a barrier-breaking cultural entity boasting over 15,000 titles in its catalog, Trojan Records has played an… By ...
No one does music fandom quite like the British. They immerse themselves in their favorite music, whatever its place of origin. They create new subcultures around it, designating new subgenres the ...
Growing up in Southern England, Bob Bell fell in love with Jamaican music as soon as he bought his first recording, in 1963. As far as he was concerned, the explosion of musical creativity in that ...
Zak Starkey and his partner Sharna "Sshh" Liguz have launched Trojan Jamaica, a new BMG-funded and -distributed record label focusing on Jamaican music. By Morgan Enos Zak Starkey has made his mark ...