On Wednesday night dancehall artiste Valiant traded the heavy-hitting sounds and high energy of dancehall for the intimacy of an acoustic performance through an unplugged session at Tacbar, located at Devon House in Kingston. The Valiant Unplugged...
The smash hit song DNA has fast become a staple in fetes this 2024 carnival season. The artiste behind the song, Mical Teja, may sound unfamiliar to the ears of many fans of soca. But, he has long existed in the space as writer and producer behind...
Popular Nigerian gospel singer, Victor Thompson, is the headline act for the Jerusalem concert scheduled to take place at the Liguanea Club, New Kingston, on March 30, and he is promising Jamaicans that it will be a “mind-blowing” experience....
Even though being a single mother can be challenging, Shakira is embracing her independence as she tries to balance her career and personal life. The Hips Don’t Lie hitmaker, who split from her footballer ex Gerard Pique in 2022, has reflected on...
Dancehall fans are eagerly anticipating this year’s Sashi Music Experience festival which will feature a Dancehall Night dubbed Sashi Energy on May 24 at Plantation Cove in St Ann. The night will feature a high-octane sound clash featuring Sound...
Following Tuesday’s government walkout of Gordon House led by Prime Minister Andrew Holness, during Opposition Leader Mark Golding’s contribution to the Budget Debate, members of the entertainment industry have weighed in on the matter. In a...
LOS ANGELES (AP): Days after Beyoncé releases her highly anticipated eighth studio album, she’ll make an appearance at the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards to receive its innovator award. Beyoncé will appear at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles to...
As GenXS Carnival gets ready to ‘Unleash the dragon’ at this year’s carnival road march in April, the band’s co-director, Kino Johnson, has some insightful reminders for ‘Carnival in Jamaica’ naysayers about the island’s soca roots. He was...
The Jamaica Youth Chorale (JYC) will be showcasing an eclectic repertoire, featuring Jamaican and American composers, in Montego Bay and the DMV area in the United States to celebrate Easter. The collection, themed ‘Amazing Love’, includes...
Regina King finds herself navigating life “minute by minute” since the passing of her son, Ian Alexander Jr, who tragically took his own life in January 2022 at the age of 26. Despite the overwhelming “physical absence”, she shares that over two...
In Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, the Spengler family returns to where it all started – the iconic New York City firehouse – to team up with the original Ghostbusters, who’ve developed a top-secret research lab to take busting ghosts to the next...
LOS ANGELES (AP): Ariana Grande and Dalton Gomez are now divorced. A Los Angeles Superior Court judgement dissolving their marriage of nearly three years became official Tuesday, six months after the 30-year-old pop star filed a petition to...
Every year, in a bid to raise awareness, conservation organisations globally recognise Earth Hour. This is one hour on the last Saturday in March where all non-essential electric lights are turned off in solidarity to show commitment to the...
It’s always been easy to underestimate Kung Fu Panda. Like the dragon warrior himself, the series has shattered preconceptions from the very beginning. Jack Black’s animated antics have no right being as meaningful and philosophical as they’ve been...
Sharon Marley has been steadily building her own legacy, first as a member of the Marley family group the Melody Makers (with brothers Ziggy and Stephen and sister Cedella), then as an accomplished singer-songwriter-actress-curator-yogi and even...
Some of Jamaica’s best bike riders and top stunters are super excited to be showcasing their wheelie, stoppie, acrobatics, burnout and drifting skills this Easter weekend at Stunt Side, which is being promoted as “di ultimate family fete”. This is...
The Jamaica Reggae Industry Association (JaRIA) Honour Awards 2024 will be staged on March 27 at The Jamaica Pegasus hotel in New Kingston. This year’s ceremony is a 15th-anniversary salute to influencers, pioneers, and luminaries of the reggae...
Chart-topping dancehall hit-maker, Charly Black, is gearing up for his annual birthday shenanigans this April. The artiste, who usually celebrates his birthday with multiple parties on the island is switching it up and staging one grand event in...
The Institute of Jamaica’s annual Musgrave Medals Award Ceremony takes place on March 27 at the Philip Sherlock Centre for the Creative Arts at The University of the West Indies, Mona. Now in its 126th year, the awards continues to recognise and...
With a noon start time, students of tertiary institutions, along with members of the surrounding community and young people across Kingston arrived slowly on Saturday and then all at once to Ring Road at The University of the West Indies, Mona...
Harvard University, the respected American centre of learning, was the venue of a vibrant showcase of Jamaican sound system culture at the Hip Hop Museum in the History Design Studio, Harvard Square, Boston, on March 7. During a two-day symposium...
As the carnival season swings into gear, debates over how to craft an authentic Carnival in Jamaica experience and mas’ place within the Jamaican entertainment spaces are central. On one hand, there are those who argue Jamaica’s dancehall-heavy...
“We refuse to be What you want us to be We are what we are: That’s the way it’s going to be” – Bob Marley, Babylon System I had the good fortune of knowing Bob Marley socially. If a natural catastrophe occurred, I believe Marley...
Sabrina Morrissey was placed in charge of Williams’ affairs as she battles health conditions including primary progressive aphasia and frontotemporal dementia and in February she filed a lawsuit against the Lifetime channel’s parent company, A E...
