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Ziggy Marley and Michael Franti Announce West Coast Tour

Ziggy Marley and Michael Franti team up for a U.S. West Coast tour, which starts with a two night run at the Mountain Winery in Saratoga, CA on June 11th & 12th through to their final show together at the Deer Valley Resort in Park...

Spotify data shows how music preferences change with latitude

Photo by Umair Abbasi (Flickr) Article by Cathleen O'Grady, via Ars Technica In Anchorage, Alaska, in the bleakest midwinter, the Sun rises just after 10am, hovers close to the horizon for a few hours, and dips back down again shortly before 4pm—all in all, just five hours and 28 minutes of...

Jamaica honours reggae with grand festival to mark 50 years of the genre

Photo courtesy of Fifty-Six Hope Road Music, Ltd. Article by Elizabeth Ofosuah Johnson, via Face2Face Africa With so much focus on culture, history and preservation of originality, February 2019 has been declared Golden Reggae month in Jamaica. According to the Jamaica Gleaner, the celebration was declared and launched by the...

Wear Your Music

 Bracelets from recycled guitar strings donated by over 150 famous musicians such as Eric Clapton, John Mayer and Joan Baez. Removed from the waste stream, the materials are handcrafted in Providence, RI and become one-of-a-kind memorabilia. Profits from the sales of these bracelets benefit any charity...

Julian Marley Welcomed to New Zealand with Traditional Pōwhiri Ceremony

 Video Courtesy of Te Karere TV Article by Jessica Tyson, via Māori Television Jamaican reggae musician Julian Marley was welcomed with a pōwhiri at the Auckland Airport today, exactly 40 years after his father, Bob Marley, also received a Māori welcoming in 1979. The 43-year-old is visiting as part...

Rihanna Ready to Drop Reggae-Influenced New Album in 2019

Photo by EJ Hersom (Creative Commons) Article via Sentinel & Enterprise News Rihanna has revealed that her ninth studio album will drop in 2019. In the comments under a promotional photo for Rihanna's Fenty beauty line posted on the singer's Instagram account, a fan wrote: "But when...

‘Rebellion Rises’ is nominated for GRAMMY, Best Reggae Album!

The 2019 GRAMMY nominations have just been released, and we are excited to announce that Ziggy Marley's seventh solo studio album, Rebellion Rises, has been nominated for Best Reggae Album! Throughout his life, Ziggy has been nominated for 15 GRAMMYs with 8 wins, including 7 for...

Hers is a life sustained by music

Photo by Tribune/Steve Hanks Article by Joel Mills, via The Lewiston Tribune PULLMAN — Wherever Julia Cohen has roamed in her 100 years, the music followed. Inland Northwest classical music fans may know her as a founding member of the Washington-Idaho Symphony, where she played viola until she was...