On Jazz Gone Dub, the London-based Gaudi collaborated with master guitarist Ernie Ranglin, Sly and Robbie, and David Hinds of ...

Canadian reggae band The Dub Chronicles is pumped up about their latest project, Simba (Return to the Throne). “This is the first project that we have produced, mixed, and mastered all on our own, and ...

“My heart makes music magic,” says Lee “Scratch” Perry. “My heart makes magic music. Me heart write it. They call it reggae. Reggae is magic.” Master of dub. Reggae renegade. Pioneer producer. An ...

For dub chemists Red-I and Soulsteppa, making music is literally crossing borders. Soulsteppa’s new 7-inch single is a collaboration with Indian singer Lady Skavya titled, “Chakra”. It is Lady ...

When Jamaica joined the World Trade Organisation in 1995, it also had to join the World Intellectual Property Organisation [WIPO], which aims to harmonise copyright laws internationally. Technically, ...

Artists from the Beastie Boys to Billy Bragg paid tribute to pioneering dub and reggae producer Lee "Scratch" Perry.(Paul Bergen: Redferns) Lee "Scratch" Perry, the wildly influential Jamaican singer ...

At Geoffrey Philp's blog, filmmaker Mikey Jiggs writes about the experience of making a documentary about dub poet Malachi Smith. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest examples ...

Geoffrey Philp posts a podcast of the proceedings from the premiere of a documentary on the life of the Jamaican dub poet Malachi Smith. Global Voices stands out as one of the earliest and strongest ...

Lee “Scratch” Perry, the Jamaican dub legend, has died, the Jamaica Observer and The Guardian report. Perry was at Noel Holmes Hospital in Lucea, Jamaica when he died earlier today (August 29). A ...

I was living in a remote mountain village when I started to think about the dub-reggae music that I had danced to 30 years ago, part of the Black sound revolution. The silence of that village created ...

Fans of dub and world music will already be very familiar with the work of Bill Laswell and Jah Wobble, both individually and through the last decade of their collaborations. So it should come as no ...