Icon Grace Jones opened the 2018 Adelaide Festival with a once-in-a-lifetime, never-to-be-forgotten spectacular
Tie-dyed tees and dreadlocks were out in force last night at the Gov for Jamaican ska and reggae band the Skatalites.
The latest New Town Kings release, an EP called Pull Up & Rewind, has been delivered to us just in time for the great long haul that is the Australian summer
Jamaican band the Skatalites, godfathers of ska and reggae, have been performing longer than most of us have been listening. First formed in 1964, the nine-piece ensemble is bringing their fiftieth anniversary tour to Adelaide next week
One World Entertainment are pleased to announce the return to Australia of one of the world’s greatest reggae bands, UB40. With their distinctive sound and multitude of hits that have topped the charts across the world, the much-loved group will commence their tour in Perth on December 5th, before stopping in Brisbane and Sydney, and finishing in Melbourne on December 11th as part of their current world tour.
Off the back of his recent Grammy nomination for Best Reggae album and an Emmy win in 2013, five-time Grammy winner and reggae icon Ziggy Marley has announced plans to release his fifth studio album Fly Rasta on April 11 via Tuff Gong Worldwide/Shock Records.
Imagine the force of an 18-piece horn section, a mean rhythm section, percussionist, organist and 4 singers and you may only begin to understand the life force that is the Melbourne Ska Orchestra.
Whether performing covers of modern day rock classics or their own work, Easy Star All-Stars are the definitive name in reggae and dub music. Taking classic rock albums and re-working them with slick reggae touches, Easy Star All-Stars are one of the few reggae bands to break the pop charts in the US. Their album Dub Side of the Moon, a re-imagined reggae version of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, became one of the biggest selling reggae releases of the past decade.
After several encores, the band bringing Likkle Mai back to the stage to cheers and whistles from the audience, the applause and cries for even more continued until the house lights were turned on, before a mad rush to the foyer to buy CDs before they all went.