The Rockers Revolt label has announced the final 3 days of our their reggae CD sale, which includes several great offers:

Buy any 4 CDs for £20
Buy any 10 CDs for £40
Buy any 14 CDs for £50

This offer includes the critically acclaimed brand new CD from Pama Intl, Outernational, featuring Lynval & Horace from The Specials)! [...]

Grammy-nominated dancehall superstar Buju Banton, recently arrested in a cocaine bust, has a new defense lined up: his lawyer is arguing that the US government entrapped him.
Update: this article is part of a continuing series about Buju Banton’s arrest, accusations, and trial. For more information about the trial, please see these related articles:

Buju Banton mistrial, [...]

Reggae star Shaggy has teamed up with producer Christopher Birch to create a song, Rise Again to raise money for the Digicel Haiti Relief Fund. The project is sponsored by Digicel and aims to use Caribbean art and artists to assist the Haitian people.
Shaggy and Birch rounded up a who’s who of Caribbean artists to [...]

Reggaeton is a hybrid music form with roots in Caribbean, Latin, and hip hop music. Despite the inclusion of the word reggae in reggaeton, the music form is actually closer to Jamaican dancehall music in it’s sound, with strong flavors of hip hop, salsa, bachata, and other forms blended in. Some people say that reggaeton [...]

Jamaican dancehall reggae star Buju Banton has been arrested for attempting to purchase 5Kg of cocaine from an undercover officer in Florida. If found guilty, Banton faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
Update: this article is part of a continuing series about Buju Banton’s arrest, accusations, and trial. For more information about the [...]

The 52nd Annual Grammy nominees for Best Reggae Album (Vocal or Instrumental)
have been announced.
One of these nominees will win the best reggae Grammy at the 52nd annual Grammy awards:

Rasta Got Soul by Buju Banton on Gargamel Music, Inc.
Brand New Me by Gregory Isaacs on Tad’s Record
Awake by Julian Marley on Ghetto Youths/Tuff Gong/Universal Republic
Mind Control [...]

Xinhua reports that Chinese grunge rock singer/guitarist Xie Tianxiao – also known as XTX or 谢天笑 – has announced the upcoming release of his new album in December 2009, to be titled The Chinese style of reggae. Xie Tianxiao has declared that this album will bring reggae to China’s mainstream audiences, combining traditional Chinese instruments, [...]

Easy Star Records released The Prester John Sessions, the debut solo production from Tommy T, the bass player from hit band Gogol Bordello, earlier this week; I recommend it to anyone who’s looking for a fresh dose of dub, funk, and classic Ethiopian instrumentation.
Like a mystic traveler searching for the legendary king Prester [...]