Guest Music Bloggers

Tanzanian musician Ras Nas aka Nasibu is ready to make this year’s summer in Oslo one of the hottest. Ras Nas with band plays at MS Innvik 18th July 2008. This will be a night of live roots reggae, African music and poetry. In short a night to remember. Put a cross on this date [...]

7-Time JUNO Nominated R&B/Neo-Soul singer Lorraine Reid has been invited to perform at the Montreal Reggae Festival on July 12, 2008. Known to many for her work with the dance group Temperance, Lorraine will be performing songs from her debut solo album “Lessons Learned,” to be released this summer. Lorraine is also scheduled to play [...]

PHOENIX, AZ — FROM THEIR HIGH-POWERED CD — “UN NUEVO ESTILO”….. International Latin sensation STILL ALIVE, the Colombian family group who cuts and creates their own style and version of Hip-Hop, Reggaeton, R&B, and too many other music styles to count, are now in Phoenix, AZ- home site of their indie label, Patrón Records…. Members [...]

Reggae Artist ABDOUL ART DEBUT EP
‘WAKE UP IN THE MORNING’

Abdoul Art is roots reggae originaly from Marrakesh Morocco. After his short successful appearance, and his reggae group The Herbalitz in Berlin a few years ago, Abdoul Art propelled himself to the forefront of conscious roots reggae with his Debut EP Wake up in the morning.
Released [...]

MusicDish & Music for the Masses present a very special two-night event at BAMcafé Live, one of New York City’s most significant venues for presenting multicultural artists.
SOULJAZZ ORCHESTRA (Canada) + KOBO TOWN (Canada)
KARLEX (France) + CHARANGA SOLEIL (USA)
plus
DJ NEVA
Free to the Public!
BAMcafe Live
Brooklyn Academy of Music
30 Lafayette Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11217
718-636-4100
http://www.bam.org/events/bamcafelive.aspx
Friday, April 4th, 2008:
DJ NEVA [...]

Grammy Award Winning Singer and Producer Performs His Hits in High Def on HDNet
WHAT: Wyclef Jean premieres on the HDNet Concert series from the famed Tabernacle in Atlanta, Georgia this Sunday March 30, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. ET.
Jean plays from his catalogue of hits including “Gone Til November,” “Carnival,” “Ready or Not,” and “Stayin’ Alive.” [...]

As part of a promotional campaign for Ras Nas’ latest album, ‘Kongoi’ Productions is giving away the title track “Dar-es-Salaam”. You can now download the song in high quality mp3 at Garage Band. The song is a groovy rumba that breaks into hot and irresistible soukous that can tempt even the beast to dance.
Ras Nas [...]

Bigup Radio, Inc., operators of the industry-leading Big Up Radio network of Reggae internet radio stations and leading web-site ( http://www.bigupradio.com ) for Reggae CDs, DVDs, vinyl, news and reviews, is pleased to announce the milestone 100th Episode of the AllSpice Reggae show hosted by DJ Common Sensi from Oakland, CA on BigUpRadio.com. To mark [...]

BigUp Radio, the leading Reggae music website ( http://www.bigupradio.com ) and operator of the most listened to Reggae internet radio stations, is pleased to announce that UK based Dancehall sensation Tippa Irie will now be bringing his show to the world on BigUp’s Dancehall internet radio station.
The most recent addition to an already strong line-up [...]

Toronto-based, roots-calypso act Kobo Town is capping a pivotal year with their debut album ‘Independence’ being selected in Exclaim! Magazine “Year in Review 2007.” Picked as a Top 10 “Groove” Album of 2007, following Amy Winehouse and M.I.A., Independence was the only album by an unsigned act in the category. The band was also recognized [...]