Over an incredibly prolific and lengthy 50-plus year career as a producer, artist and record label exec, much ink has been spilled over the legendary and influential Lee “Scratch” Perry, which would make delving deep […]
Tag: reggae
New Video: The Main Squeeze’s Soulful Cover of Bob Marley’s “Sun Is Shining”
If you’ve been frequenting JOVM over the past month or so, you may be familiar with the neo-soul act, The Main Squeeze. The band which consists of of Corey Frye (vocals), Max Newman (guitar), Ben “Smiley” Silverstein (keyboards), […]
New Video: The Trippy, CGI-based Video for Felix da Housecat’s Dub-Infused “The Natural” feat. The Legendary Lee “Scratch” Perry
Much ink has been spilled over the length of Lee “Scratch” Perry’s incredible, 50 plus-year music career, and that should be unsurprising as Perry has held a towering and instrumental influence on both modern and contemporary Jamaican reggae […]
New Audio: Felix da Housecat teams up with Reggae and Dub Legend Lee “Scratch” Perry for some trippy dub on “The Natural”
Much ink has been spilled over the length of Lee “Scratch” Perry’s incredible, 50 plus-year music career, and that shouldn’t be terribly surprising as Perry has held a towering influence on both modern and contemporary Jamaican music […]
There are a handful of contemporary genres that seem to transcend the boundaries of race, class and nationality – in particular I think of rock, hip-hop, EDM and reggae. Formed by producer Marek Bogdanski back […]
Montreal, QC-based Jamaican-Canadian, reggae singer/songwriter Face-T first made noise in his native city’s music scene when the group he founded, Kulcha Connection released two critically and commercially successful albums released across Canada and France. After […]
It’s been a rather busy few days in the JOVM world as I will be covering 8 shows in about 13 days or something like that, so unfortunately, I haven’t been able to post as […]
One of the great things about the proliferation of independent labels is their ability to reintroduce sadly forgotten yet influential artists to new audiences, often through the reissuing of albums that had seemingly disappeared. Fantasy […]
I may have mentioned this somewhere or another, but as a boy, I was a huge fan of The Police; in fact, my mom would love to remind me that “Canary In A Coal Mine” […]
Dub Champions Festival at Brooklyn Bowl 9/24/14 feat. Subatomic Sound System, Lee “Scratch” Perry and Special Guests
Dub Champions Festival feat. Subatomic Soundsystem, Lee “Scratch” Perry and Special Guests Brooklyn Bowl September 24, 2014 As I’ve mentioned countless times, running a blog full-time while having a full-time job often results in having […]
As I’ve mentioned in a previous post, I rarely get political here – it’s a music blog after all. But after the grand jury decision the other song I thought of was Bob Marley’s “War” […]
This year makes the 30th anniversary of the release of Purple Rain, one of Prince’s most beloved, best-selling and perhaps most influential albums he’s ever released. And to celebrate such an important milestone, reggae collective, Radio […]
Junior Reid, Razhel and Chronixx and the Zincfence Redemption at Summerstage, Central Park 7/27/14
Junior Reid, Razhel and Chronixx Summerstage, Central Park July 27, 2014 As I’ve mentioned a number of times on this site, The Joy of Violent Movement has been a mostly one-man operation run out of […]