The voice of Montego Bay-born reggae artist, Toian, is a lot like a Caribbean summer: both languid and syrupy. Her recent single “Rude Boys”– a testament to her ill-advised love for the fast life– has a new slick music video that is polished and clean. “Rude Boys” is already making the rounds on MTVJams and… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Reggae
Streetwise: A Funky Dress Top at Reggae Sumfest
Streetwise: Hempress Sativa at Sumfest
CFW 2014: Night Two Lost, A Silver Lining Found
After a whirlwind of fashion shows this last month we’re finally ready to close another chapter on Caribbean Fashion Week. Unfortunately finishing up coverage came with much disappointment as we experienced a huge upset last week when we discovered that KS photographer Marlon Reid’s computer received a virus, thus erasing all of our images from… Read more »
Dancin’ Digs: Speculating on Dancehall’s Summer Anthems & an Inspiring Bob Marley Cover
This week’s edition of “Dancin’ Digs” shovels its way through the latest Dancehall tracks and speculates their Summer anthem qualities. So sit back and enjoy the sounds and sights from the songs we sourced straight from the bloglines/Youtube pages we love and delivered to you for a little mid-week upliftment. As we always say, shake… Read more »
Behind the Lens: Ayana Riviére talks Styling Protoje’s New “Who Knows” Video
If there was ever any question about whether the Reggae Revival movement had a thing or two to teach us about stylish rude boy swagger, last Friday’s video release for Protoje’s rhythmic anthem “Who Knows” featuring Chronixx, obliterated it, cementing the movement as a definitive curator of new roots style. The video prompted music magazine… Read more »
Streetwise: Desha Davis Looking Crisp at British Link Up
Dancin’ Digs: New Chronixx Video, Stream SZA’s “Z”, Little Dragon Sings Popcaan and More!
This week’s edition of “Dancin’ Digs” is an eclectic mix. It usually is, but this week’s really is all over the map: from dancehall to reggae to swedish singers and “Sweet Novembers.” It’s also incredibly late in the week for us to be posting a column on “mid-week upliftment” because the weekend is peering at… Read more »
Dancin’ Digs: New Slow/Fast Tracks That’ll Revive You
For our third edition of “Dancin’ Digs” we “dig” deeper into the “remix” and the “collaboration” track. Even though it wasn’t exactly intentional, we couldn’t ignore the reoccurring theme. We saw some gems in these collaborative works and compiled five new songs for you to dance to– slow or fast– sourced straight from the bloglines… Read more »
Dancin’ Digs: Gyptian x Ricky Blaze, Tosh Alexander, Mr. Williamz and More
For our second edition of “Dancin’ Digs” we turn our focus back to Jamaican artistes and artistes inspired by Jamaica. We’ve compiled a few new songs for you to dance to, sourced straight from the interweb bloglines and delivered to your screen. Notice: they’re intend to uplift you and introduce you to new tunes that’ll… Read more »