Reggae star Tarrus Riley has taken over the Spotify Reggae Classics playlist. The initiative, supported by VP Records, also sees the Queen of Soca, Alison Hinds, take over the ‘Soca Classics’ playlist in celebration of the Carnival Sounds campaign...
A packed house showed up at the Regional Headquarters at UWI Mona for the launch of Patricia Chin’s book, My Reggae Music Journey. Chin is co-founder and CEO of the New York-based reggae label, VP Records, and she is currently in Jamaica for a...
ATLANTA (AP): A prosecutor on Monday announced a sprawling indictment targeting members of what she said is a violent street gang that has been targeting the Atlanta area homes of famous athletes, entertainers and others who flaunt expensive...
This past Sunday, just two months shy of its second anniversary, the New Kingston Drive-In had its final showing. Scores of movie fans showed up to support the venue’s grand finale, with attendance higher than it had been in months. Just past the...
Taylor Swift took home the top prize at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday before she closed out the show with a surprisingly big announcement: Her new album. “I thought it would be a fun moment to tell you that my new album comes out...
Nicki Minaj hailed the Caribbean and the people of Jamaica during her acceptance speech for the Video Vanguard Award at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs), giving special mention to Beenie Man and Skeng. Minaj paid tribute to a long list of...
Chart-topping rap star Cardi B has revealed her feelings about her parents’ separation when she was 13, as well as how having more money has affected her happiness. She said recently that she “wasn’t really sad” about her parents separating,...
The third staging of Dragon Spitfire Month-End Fridays was a success. The street dance, which doubled as a stage show, featured entertainment by popular selectors Bishop Escobar and Jahvvy Supreme, along with a guest performance by First Nation...
Skip Marley has teamed up with Nigeria-based, Afropop sensation, Ayra Starr, for an end-of-summer jam, titled Jane, which was produced by Rykeyz, who also produced Skip’s #1 single Slow Down, a collab with with HER. Recorded in Miami, the single...
For movie lovers and adventure buffs who have never experienced a drive-in movie, Sunday is set to be the final day to do so in Jamaica as Palace Amusement closes the curtains on the New Kingston Drive-In which has been in operation since October...
The new space for creative expression – social media, meets traditional theatre production as writer and producer Rayon McLean, pieces the two together for what he describes as an ‘outrageously hilarious satirical theatre revue’ in the play Pitchy...
LOS ANGELES (AP): Kevin Hart already has a thriving comedy and acting career, and now he’s aiming for people’s stomachs. The prolific actor-comedian opened his first plant-based, fast-food restaurant called Hart House on Thursday in the...
Dubbed the ‘Dancing DJ’, international disc jockey and producer DJ Fade the Future has been bouncing to the beat of his own drum with style, enviable turntable skills and killer moves. Only recently, the disc jock who has gained endorsements from...
Like many musicians, Carl ‘Lee King’ Scharschmidt started singing in the Church. However, though the artiste, producer, arranger, and lecturer is from a musical family, he initially viewed music as just a hobby. It wasn’t until he had completed...
Popular social media influencers Tanaania and TC are among the cast members of new theatre production, Pitchy Patchy. A comedic and satirical theatre revue, Pitchy Patchy, which will run for four weeks, brings together some of Jamaica’s most...
CHICAGO (AP): Defence lawyers at R Kelly’s child pornography trial in Chicago sought Wednesday to portray a key government witness as a liar and extortionist, contending the man first approached the R...
A team from Paramount Pictures, which is responsible for the Bob Marley biopic now in production, is in the island to conduct a casting at the AC Hotel Kingston this Saturday and Sunday, August 27-28, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Another round of open casting...
Come September, soca fanatics will be expected to put on their best fête outfit and dancing shoes on two nights for the popular soca party, I Love Soca Cooler Festival. It is a welcomed expansion, as the numbers for the event has consistently...
A conversation with singer, songwriter and deejay from St Vincent and the Grenadines, Shiiloh, is flavoured with all the spices from the Caribbean, pretty much the same way her music is. Caribbean unity and integration and the West Indies...
Man has long believed in the power of music to bring peace to troubled minds and situations. Famously, playwrights William Shakespeare and William Congreve captured the concept when writing, in their respective plays, about music being “the food of...
CHICAGO (AP): A mother whose daughter prosecutors say R Kelly sexually abused starting when she was 14 told jurors Monday at the singer’s federal trial that she lied to a state grand jury 20 years ago, in part because she and her husband felt...
Dr Alithea Binnie (Tilda Swinton) is an academic, content with life and a creature of reason. While in Istanbul attending a conference, she happens to encounter a Djinn (Idris Elba) who offers her three wishes in exchange for his freedom. This...
Last Sunday evening, the University Chapel, UWI, Mona, came alive with the sound of music as the National Chorale of Jamaica (NCOJ) presented its Golden Gala Concert, in celebrations of its milestone 50th anniversary. Guest performers for the...
Roots reggae, art, ital cuisine and cannabis festival Rebel Salute is set to return with a physical staging in 2023 for the first time since Jamaica recorded its first case of COVID-19 two and a half years ago, the organisers announced on Sunday....
