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Damian Marley is newest co-owner of Jay-Z's Tidal

Published:Thursday | October 22, 2015 | 4:05 PMShereita Grizzle

Damian 'Jr Gong' Marley is the latest top artiste to sign on as co-owner of Jay Z's music-streaming service, Tidal. The announcement was made at the Tidalx1020 concert at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, on Tuesday.According to Forbes.com...

Girl power! - More than 700 female groups charted songs between 1960 and 1966

Published:Friday | October 23, 2015 | 12:00 AM

While Jamaica experienced a dearth of girl groups in popular music during the 1960s, there was a remarkable proliferation of that sort, particularly in the United States and United Kingdom, with no less than 750 girl groups being able to chart a...

No toying around with Safira Mono

Published:Friday | October 23, 2015 | 12:00 AM

With her new I Am Not a Toy EP under her belt, Spanish Town-based artiste Safira Mono (real name Shockera Pinnock) is eyeing 2016 as her breakout year.Released last week, the EP consists of the title track and four others - Tuff Life (featuring...

Entertainers rule at Port Royal Seafood Festival

Published:Friday | October 23, 2015 | 5:48 PMDavina Henry

Food, fun, frolic, and great entertainment was the order of the day at the annual Port Royal Seafood Festival.As is customary, patrons gathered at the football field to partake in the wide array of mouth-watering seafood dishes and enjoy the...

Drake follows dancehall trend with Hotline Bling

Published:Thursday | October 22, 2015 | 12:00 AMCurtis Campbell

Canadian rapper Drake has peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 with his single Hotline Bling. He recently told Billboard.com that his ultimate dream is to rise to the No.1 spot for the first time in his illustrious career.The artiste, who is...

Lots of fun at Funfest Ocho Rios

Published:Friday | October 23, 2015 | 12:00 AM

The Heroes weekend ended on quite a positive note in Ocho Rios on Monday with families turning out in their numbers, flocking the Turtle River Park to enjoy themselves at the Tastee / Tropicana Tropics Fun Fest.A wide range of activities, especially...

Drama in Court, death in Song

Published:Friday | October 23, 2015 | 12:00 AMMel Cooke

Today at the new Morant Bay Courthouse in St Thomas, the dramatic production - The Trial of Governor Edward John Eyre - will revisit in a legal way, the uprising of October 1865, which led to widespread repression in St Thomas. It is a good time to...

Your best event choices

Published:Wednesday | October 21, 2015 | 12:34 PM

BEST BETSMawch Out (SAT)Mawch Out, a reggae and dancehall concert, is at Pearly Beach, Featuring Ky-mani Marley, Cocoa Tea, Sizzla Kalonji, Beenie Man, Bounty Killer, Military Man, Dimon Treajah, Promisin, Dilly Chris, Innovata and Devin Di Dakta....

Five good choices this weekend

Published:Wednesday | October 21, 2015 | 12:46 PM

FilmWatch German Town, The Lost Story of Seaford Town, showing at the Institute of Jamaica's Lecture Hall, 10-16 East St, Kgn, tomorrow starting at 11 a.m. For more information visit www.germantownjamaica.com, call the African Caribbean Institute of...

Sunday encore for Otello

Published:Thursday | October 22, 2015 | 5:59 AM

There will be an encore of Verdi's Otello at Palace Cineplex and Palace Multiplex this Sunday at 11:30 a.m.The Met: Live in HD continued its 10th anniversary season last Saturday with a live transmission of its new production of Verdi's Otello. An...

Ed Sheeran concert on screen tomorrow

Published:Thursday | October 22, 2015 | 6:10 AM

Ed Sheeran will have the global premiere of his concert film debut Jumpers for Goalposts tomorrow. The special cinema event includes red carpet highlights, an exclusive live performance from Ed, and the film shown in its entirety for the first time....

Rex's sense of community, Ratoon's approach

Published:Thursday | October 22, 2015 | 12:00 AMMichael Reckord

The propagation and dissemination of positive Jamaican values was a central topic examined at two of the many enjoyable events making up last week's Rex Nettleford Arts Conference at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts (EMCVPA...

Quickies

Published:Thursday | October 22, 2015 | 12:00 AM

 Fab 5 plays Pon Di Rio Grande this Sunday, October 25, at Rafters’ Rest, St Margaret’s Bay, Portland. The Country Hoppers-organised monthly party is sponsored by Brahams Texaco...

After the 150th, what then?

Published:Wednesday | October 21, 2015 | 10:23 AMMel Cooke

Anniversaries can be dangerous things. For one, there tends to be an emphasis on the time that has elapsed rather than on the worth of what has transpired over the period. A few years ago, we were celebrating Jamaica's 50th anniversary of political...

Inaugural Kingston Jerk and Gospel Music Festival a success

Published:Wednesday | October 21, 2015 | 12:01 PMShereita Grizzle

Fun, food and wholesome family entertainment were the order of the day at the inaugural staging of the Kingston Jerk and Gospel Music Festival.Scores of patrons flocked the lawns of the Ranny Williams Entertainment Centre on Monday for a day of...

Irie Jam's Dubbmaster Chris and DJRoy 'run di world'

Published:Monday | October 19, 2015 | 12:00 AM

As a frigid Saturday night in December 1993 becomes Sunday morning, homesick radio listeners in New York are greeted with the pulsating sounds of reggae music coming live and in stereo from the White River Reggae Bash concert in Ocho Rios, Jamaica....

Diaspora market wide open for local businesses

Published:Monday | October 19, 2015 | 12:00 AM

With an estimated one million Jamaican nationals in the diaspora living in the United States, the market is wide open for local businesses looking to increase market share. It is against this background that New York-based Irie Jam Media Group has...

US artistes utilise J'can song-creation method

Published:Tuesday | October 20, 2015 | 12:00 AM

American journalist and author John Seabrook has credited reggae producers in Jamaica for the track-and-hook method, the modern method of song creation currently dominating American writing camps.'Track and hook' indicates the split between the...

'The Baby Scam' is contagiously funny

Published:Tuesday | October 20, 2015 | 12:00 AMMarcia Rowe

Patrick Brown has ventured into the scamming business - in his latest play, that is - with creative and hilarious success. From the power keg of humorous lines, some fine directing, excellent timing of cues well executed by the production company's...

The Last Witch Hunter: Cursed with immortality

Published:Tuesday | October 20, 2015 | 12:00 AM

The modern world holds many secrets, but the most astounding secret of all is that witches still live among us; vicious supernatural creatures intent on unleashing the Black Death upon the world. Armies of witch hunters battled the unnatural enemy...

Red Stripe buzzing with new 'What's Good' campaign

Published:Tuesday | October 20, 2015 | 12:00 AM

'What's Good' buzzed around Kingston's hippest and newest nightspot, 100 Hope Road, recently, as Red Stripe kicked off its latest brand campaign.With two years in the making, the managing director of the beer company, Cedric Blair, noted that "in an...

Coming Soon... Steve Jobs

Published:Tuesday | October 20, 2015 | 12:00 AM

Set backstage at three iconic product launches and ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac, Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint a portrait of the man at its epicentre.

Ed Sheeran’s Jumpers for Goalposts Hits the Big Screen this Saturday

Published:Tuesday | October 20, 2015 | 1:45 PM

Ed Sheeran is set to rock select cinemas worldwide, including Carib 5, Palace Cineplex, and Palace Multiplex this Saturday, with his highly anticipated concert film, Jumpers for Goalposts. The concert film brings together Ed's captivating...

The Met Opera’s Otello Encores on Sunday

Published:Tuesday | October 20, 2015 | 1:48 PM

Aleksandrs Antonenko stars in the title role, as director Bartlett Sher's new production Verdi's masterful Otello encores this Sunday at Palace Cineplex and Palace Multiplex, starting at 11:30am.

Ratoon interrogates J'can society

Published:Monday | October 19, 2015 | 1:23 PMHugh Stultz

What is the purpose of forum theatre and, more fundamentally, what is the purpose of theatre? These two questions are key to determining whether the current production of Dr Erna Brodber's Ratoon by the School of Drama, Edna Manley College of the...

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