The first Orrett Rhoden International Music Festival, announced in The Gleaner last week, has undergone the smallest of changes. The three-part festival should have included a concert at the Kingston Parish Church on January 29. That has been tweaked.

If you love music from your heart, you can do no wrong is the philosophy of upcoming artiste Chronixx. The 19-year-old singer is quickly earning a reputation on the live-music scene with his sweet voice and even sweeter lyrics.

Viewers of HBO on Flow will have the chance to win the ultimate VIP treatment package for the weekend of the 2012 Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival, January 26-28. The grand prize winner of the Jazz It Up with Flow and HBO promotion will receive hotel accommodation for two at the luxurious Ritz-Carlton Golf Resort and Spa along with VIP tickets to attend the festival...

Jamaican and Caribbean content providers and users are set to benefit from eMedia Interactive’s iVu online TV network, a new media company based in Jamaica, offering ad-supported and premium on-demand streaming of TV shows, plays, movies and webisodes to PCs, tablets, smartphones and TV.

International deejay Sean Paul celebrated his birthday with a club full of friends, fans and partygoers during Brand New Machine on Wednesday.Held at the Fiction Nightclub, the weekly Brand New Machine was dubbed the ‘Tomahawk Technique’ in honour of Sean Paul’s fifth studio album.

“I wrote the lyrics and the melody. A lot of people come and sing it over and some of them try to act as if it is theirs,” Little Roy, who now lives in England, said. “That is a song I recorded for my Tafari label in 1973, and I think it was released in 1974. I used to walk and sell it myself. It sold many thousands.”

In April 1978, Jamaica’s historic One Love Peace Concert was held at the National Stadium, St Andrew, as strong men ‘Bucky’ Marshall and ‘Claudie’ Massop pushed for peace across the political divide. The concert is remembered for Bob Marley holding up the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) leader Edward Seaga’s hand, along with People’s National Party (PNP) leader Michael Manley’s.

The Vinyl Record Collectors Association (VRCA) will this year, celebrate its 15th Annual Memorial Weekend where it all began – in Philadelphia. The weekend scheduled for May 25 to 28 will showcase the record collection of veteran vinyl collectors, and honour those both past and present who have contributed to the fraternity.