Upbeat (March/April 2002)
Musicians head for Jamaica Started in 1999, the Caribbean Music Expo (CME) has become one of the must-attend events for people in the music...
New music from the Caribbean
PICK OF THE MONTH Lifeline Suzanne Couch (Cane Juice Music) This polished adult contemporary release by Jamaican singer/pianist Suzanne...
Riddem & Rhyme: Bob’s collection goes home
The world’s most famous collection of reggae music and memorabilia, and the man who has devoted most of his adult life to accumulating...
Bunji Garlin: send dem riddim crazy
From the mid-1980s through the early 90s, Jamaican dub, and later dancehall, dominated the musical landscape in Trinidad and Tobago outside...
Caribbean Playlist (January/February 2015)
Calypso Craze: 1956–57 and Beyond Various artists With Trinidad Carnival upon us, we need to be reminded that modern soca music had a...
Arriba, Arriba!
Less than ten miles off the coast of Venezuela, Trinidad shares several cultural traditions with its bigger neighbour — including parang,...
Forever young: “Glamour Boyz Again”
Geoffrey Dunn makes no bones about it. He was on tenterhooks. His latest film, The Glamour Boyz Again: The Mighty Sparrow and Lord Superior...
Caribbean Playlist (November/December 2014)
#LiveAndUncut Elan Trotman Group On his eighth album #LiveAndUncut (“Live and Uncut”, for the Twitter hashtag-averse), Barbadian...
