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Damian Marley and Nas Distant Relatives 2010 tour

[ May 2, 2010; May 21, 2010; May 22, 2010; May 23, 2010; May 25, 2010; May 26, 2010; May 28, 2010; May 29, 2010; May 30, 2010; May 31, 2010; June 2, 2010; June 8, 2010; June 9, 2010; June 11, 2010; June 12, 2010; June 13, 2010; June 27, 2010; June 28, 2010; July 1, 2010; July 3, 2010; July 4, 2010; July 6, 2010; July 7, 2010; July 9, 2010; July 10, 2010; July 11, 2010; July 13, 2010; July 14, 2010; July 16, 2010; July 17, 2010; July 20, 2010; July 23, 2010; July 31, 2010; August 1, 2010; ] Reggae royalty Damian “Junior Gong” Marley and hip hop star Nas are teaming up again for their summer 2010 Distant Relatives tour, supporting their co-created album of the same name.

Distant Relatives is the hotly-anticipated reggae / hip hop crossover album that is the result of a long collaboration between Marley and Nas. Although Nas and [...]

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Best of Bangers R Mashed, Volume 2, with free dub music sample from Slinky Music

Slinky Music has just released the  BEST OF BANGERS R MASHED VOL. 2 from the Nuffwish crew. The new album collects 14 tracks of pure dub reggae joy, with tracks from reggae music artists including

Bob Marley
King Tubby
The Upsetters
Beenie Man
Elephant Man
Ashanti
Streets
Big Youth
Fatback band
And others…

Some of these dub reggae tracks are new, many have been previously released.
You [...]

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Hepcat headlines ska, reggae Haiti relief concert

[ February 6, 2010; 7:00 pm to 11:59 pm. ] In response to the recent devastating earthquakes to hit Haiti, KCRW is hosting a Haiti Relief Concert at El Rey Theatre, Saturday, Feb. 6th 2010, featuring Hepcat, Dengue Fever, Joey Altruda, The Lions, Be Very Careful, and The Tuffington. Ticket proceeds from this night will be donated to Operation USA’s Haiti relief efforts.

The worldly line-up [...]

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Smile Jamaica 2010 Bob Marley concert canceled

Ghetto Youth’s International, organizers of the annual Bob Marley concert Smile Jamaica, have announced that the 2010 staging of the celebration of the King of Reggae’s birth would have to be called off, due to numerous circumstances.
 
Smile Jamaica spokesperson Norman Bryan, said yesterday that while the organization was looking forward to staging the concert after [...]

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Rihanna sings Bob Marley Redemption song for Haiti

Rihanna sang Bob Marley‘s Redepmtion Song on The Oprah Winfrey Show late last week as part of a fund raiser for Haitian earthquake victims.
The Baja-born singer won the 2008 Grammy for her collaboration with Jay-Z on the single Umbrella and has been nominated for several rap and pop Grammys since then. Now she’s returning to [...]

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Bob Marley posters – why are they popular?

Bob Marley‘s popularity has outlived his reggae music, his tour dates, and even his life. Some people think that a musician’s career ends when they stop recording, or perhaps when they pass from this world, but Robert Nesta Marley, the great Jamaican reggae singer, has proven them wrong, even though his death was a tremendous [...]

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Xie Tianxia announces upcoming album, The Chinese Style of Reggae

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, [...]

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I and I BOB MARLEY book 27% discount

I just got an email from Reggae Festival Guide that their subscribers are receiving 27% off the cover price of I AND I BOB MARLEY from Lee and Low books. Plus free shipping through October 15. Not a bad deal if you have kids or know people who have kids that could benefit from a [...]

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Babylon by Johnny Clarke and Jah Shaka

This reggae video is the 12 inch version of the classic Babylon by Johnny Clarke & Jah Shaka is arguably one of the biggest roots reggae tracks of the 1970s. It remains a timeless classic today. Listen for the dub at the end…

Johnny Clarke
Rastafarian reggae musician Johnny Clarke was born in Whitfield Town in Kingston, [...]

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The unsavory-looking DJRemix4You is offering a free download of Bob Marley & The Wailers reggae album Burnin, originally released in 1973. (Click here, then look for the “download” link above the Burning album cover.) Burnin includes such hits as Get Up, Stand Up, recorded with Peter Tosh, and Marley’s reggae hits I Shot the Sheriff [...]

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