Who's the coolest mom in music?
Source: USA Today Life
Kingston :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-20 18:55:31 -0700 | entertainment-news
EDT May 20, 2013 Gwen Stefani tops the list in a new iHeartRadio Survey. Beyonce might be looking to make Blue Ivy a big sister, but iHeartRadio listeners think Gwen Stefani is music's coolest mom. In a recent survey, the...
E-Dee doubles up in movie
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Kingston :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 22:37:17 -0700 | entertainment-news
The song is called Ghetto Yutes Rise , and according to E-Dee, it's the perfect song for empowerment. "In a time when the youth are being misled by much of their leaders, somebody has to take charge and seek to...
StyleWeek Ja showcases city
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Kingston :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-15 23:47:47 -0700 | entertainment-news
Magazine, Italian Vogue, Fashion News Live, V Man/V Magazines, The Guardian, Ebony Magazine and Profile 83 Magazine, which were flown into Jamaica courtesy of the Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB). A surprising addition was the self-sponsored Nova TV from Croatia.
T Magazine: The Man With the Golden Ear
Source: The New York Times
Kingston :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-08 13:33:34 -0700 | entertainment-news
29 pm The 75-year-old businessman Chris Blackwell has made a fortune betting on the charms of his beloved Jamaica. In 1959, Blackwell started Island Records, which brought reggae and Bob Marley to a worldwide audience. (He also signed U2, Cat...
Cedric Brooks dies: Reggae great was 70
Source: The Dish Rag
Kingston :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-07 09:54:27 -0700 | entertainment-news
After falling ill in 2010, Brooks had been hospitalized in New York and was only able to communicate through small gestures, his sister tells the Associated Press. He passed away of cardiac arrest after three years in that condition, and...
Stream Douster's Inna Style N Fashion EP
Source: The Fader
Kingston :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-06 10:00:58 -0700 | entertainment-news
Naomi Zeichner Douster, the French producer who's previously become enamored by club cumbia and medieval trumpets , will release his first dancehall EP, Inna Style N Fashion , on May 14th via Dre Skull's Mixpak records. Hear the entire four-track...
City Kitchen: With Jamaica Out of Reach, Making Jerk Chicken at Home
Source: The New York Times
Kingston :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-03 13:09:49 -0700 | entertainment-news
Conrad/The New York Times To console myself, I made a batch of jerk chicken on a cool drizzly day in New York, put on some reggae music, turned up the volume and called a few friends. Since the early spring...
Six for posterity - Theatre pioneers' work must be documented
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Kingston :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-03 00:12:07 -0700 | entertainment-news
That saying is often associated with the late Dr Olive Lewin (born 1927), the world-renowned researcher of Jamaican folk music, who died on April 10. Dr Lewin, founder of the internationally acclaimed Jamaican Folk Singers, spent decades getting traditional songs...
Italian musician creates jazz album with island sounds - Samuele Vivian finds a home called Jamaica
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Kingston :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-05-02 07:02:09 -0700 | entertainment-news
My home is in many places now, but I really do miss my family and friends living in Italy," he told The Gleaner ...Jamaica, however, is just as seductive a mistress for the guitarist. "I think Jamaican music differs a...
Olive Lewin was one of my mentors
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Kingston :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-04-28 02:46:29 -0700 | entertainment-news
She was a very gentle person, very sensitive and easily hurt...I used to feel very privileged because when I'd go home as a big person, she'd come and sit in the room with me and talk...This is Olive Lewin, many...
Irie Jam plans expansion
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Kingston :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-04-28 01:15:35 -0700 | entertainment-news
Sunday April 28, 2013 Goes into artiste management, recording from Jamaica Sadeke Brooks, Staff Reporter In celebrating its 20th year, New York-based Irie Jam Media Group, plans to expand into artiste management and booking, as well as broadcast from Jamaica....
No Peas, no rock, just schlock
Source: New York Post
Kingston :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-04-22 20:38:36 -0700 | entertainment-news
Black Eyed Pea has thoughtfully provided us with a fresh batch of awful music to mock. His fourth solo album, #willpower, is awash with Auto-Tuned dance-pop pap, much of which sounds like it was written to soundtrack Zumba workouts and...
Take Five with Ted Sirota
Source: All About Jazz
Kingston :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-04-17 02:03:53 -0700 | entertainment-news
Veteran Chicago drummer, Ted Sirota, has been playing the drums since 1980. Ted has lead his own band, Ted Sirota's Rebel Souls, since 1996. Rebel Souls have recorded five CD's for the Naim & Delmark labels.
IN PRINT: Point-Counterpoint
Source: Bookforum
Kingston :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-03-31 21:16:50 -0700 | entertainment-news
Point-Counterpoint Peter Arkle I know how to sharpen pencils. I shove them into the electric pencil sharpener suction-cupped onto a corner of my desk. It growls so satisfyingly and provides a kind of smoke break for a nonsmokera perfect bit...
Carnival of colours
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Kingston :: NY :: USA | updated 2013-03-24 00:17:45 -0700 | entertainment-news
Amitabh Sharma, Contributor Spring is in the air, the foliage of the tropics blooming spreading innumerable colours of Mother Nature, from trees to flowers to mango trees laden with succulent, juicy fruits sweetening in the crisp Caribbean sunshine...Fuzzy, who has...
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