[ February 19, 2011; February 20, 2011; ] The 30th Annual RaggaMuffins Festival has announced their lineup for the shows on Saturday, February 19th and Sunday, February 20th, at 3PM at the Long Beach Arena in California. Formerly known as the Bob Marley Day Festival, the 2011 RaggaMuffins Music Festival is being billed as a tribute to Bob Marley.

The 30th Annual RaggaMuffins [...]

[ December 30, 2010; 12:00 am to 11:59 pm. ] Sound Liberation Front is hosting their annual New Years Eve Loft Party this weekend in Brooklyn, New York.

The lineup includes PLANET RUMP (with a special solo set by NASTY NESS), TREASURE DON (backed by a live band with members of SUPER HI-FI and the SLF crew), and the BRENT ARNOLD BAND. The Sound Liberation [...]

Matty G. is the bass player and dub engineer for Georgia-based Dubconscious. This is a video of him dubbing one of his tracks, Ecclesiastes, live.

Matty wrote the song and is dubbing a multi-tracked studio recording via a computer hooked into a mixing board. He’s manipulating the mix as it is played and recorded once again, [...]

ProducerTutorials just started following our Twitter account so we took a look at their first video tutorial, which shows a step by step video of how to create a “filthy dubstep bassline” with Massive from Native Instruments.
This is an intro demo, which shows how to manipulate a bassline to great effect.
Here’s the video:

If you’re interested, [...]

Max Tannone recently joined the Dub and Reggae community and messaged me about his latest release: Mos Dub, a dub remix of Mos Def.
I’ve heard other great dub covers of popular music, most famously Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Dub Band by Easy Star All Stars and the VP Records tribute to Michael Jackson as well [...]

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 [...]

[ January 29, 2010; 7:00 pm; January 30, 2010; January 31, 2010; ] The Australian Centre for the Moving Image is presenting a film festival dedicated to the history of dub and reggae! From Kingston to Brixton, rocksteady to reggae, roots to revolution – the heat is on. Deeply embracing social justice, politics and sonic experimentation, ACMI’s series explores the streets, identities, roots and impact of reggae’s dynamic [...]

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)! [...]

Collie Buddz Come Around lyrics
A just the sweet sweet sensi,Yuh know,Yeh I, Yeh I,Nah, Nah, Nah, Nah, Now,
Finally the herbs come around,The high grade when me a look for,Me get it by the pound,yeah,Sweet sensi a come around,Me a take a little draw and pass it go round, so,Finally the herbs come around,The high grade [...]