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20/07/2025

Sad news from Jamaica …
The icon singer Owen Gray has just passed away … 😔
He was one of the first international stars from Jamaica and also the modern dubplate concept originator. ⭐️
Gone but not forgotten. ✨
Condolences to his family and loved ones
RIP 🙏🏽

19/07/2025

18/07/2025

17 and 18 years old Althea & Donna. Uptown Top Ranking became a No.1 hit in the UK on February 1978


❤️💚💛

04/03/2025

Big show at The Factory with Queen Omega. Get there!!

JUST ANNOUNCED - QUEEN OMEGA & THE ROYAL SOULS 🔥
Known for her soulful voice and empowering lyrics, Queen Omega continues to leave her mark on the global reggae stage. Fans can expect a dynamic live show as she is joined by her eight-piece band, The Royal Souls.

📅 Wed 12 March 2025
🎫 On Sale Now @ https://cntury.co/FAC25_QUEENOMEGA

17/11/2024

Spear reach Trinidad and Tobago...travelling and grounding.

22/09/2024

2024 - ILY SENSIMILLA (feat. Pressure Busspipe)

Ah where, I'll phone ya
And out deh international farmer

I've got a stalk of Sinsemilla
Growing in my backyard
I've got a stalk of Sinsemilla
Growing in my backyard

Don't cut down the collie tree
'Cause it makes the best tea for me
I've seen doctor say, it gives naturally
One thing this doctor will need
A lot of food
To survive and go through in Babylon

Yes, I've walked the streets and seen children downtown
Begging everyone they see, and it hurt me
It can't be right for what this world do for the youth
And the little herb I'm selling, they want to capture me

I and I don't cherish wickedness
Because it's none profit to I and I

I've got the stalk of Sinsemilla
Growing in my backyard, oh
I've the stalk of Sinsemilla
Growing in my

Anything that is none profit
I and I don't take for it
Pass it, pass it
All over I and I

There is a red house over yonder
Full of ma*****na
I've been sitting on the corner
Chatting up with the farmer

I’ve got a stalk of Sinsemilla
Growing in my backyard
I've got a stalk of Sinsemilla
Growing in my backyard

Free the herb, free the herb

07/09/2024

I'm extremely sad to hear that Garth White, one of the very best chroniclers of Jamaican popular music - someone who lived it from the inside - has passed aged 77. His work precedes and informs most of the writing about reggae today and should be much better known internationally. He was precise and evocative in his accounts of the musical culture of his homeland. I also found him to be humble and funny and he was generous with his time when I met him some years ago in Jamaica. Many scholars, musicians, and fans of Jamaican music will mourn his passing. RIP Garth.

Kingston, 6 September 2024 – The Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, the Honourable Olivia Grange, has said that she’s deeply saddened by the passing of the musicologist and author, Garth White. Minister Grange said Mr White was “like an encyclopaedia that I could always cons...

03/09/2024

Classic early 80s Jamaican flyer for a Jimmy Cliff shop in Montego Bay. Ice cream, hamburgers, and reggae? Yes please! Crucialriddim archive.

17/07/2024

Here's a Jamaican(?) documentary about Bob Marley's life, a good few years old now but still worth a look with many fascinating interviews. It's one of the few docos about Jamaican music that includes the great Jamaican musicologist and writer, Garth White.

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08/07/2024

We don't run many ads on the walls of Bambu Hut but this is an exception:

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08/07/2024

The greatest band in Jamaican history? You decide. But while you're thinking take some time to enjoy this video of the Skatalites (full of Jamaican instrumental super stars) from 1990, courtesy of video maker Diane Strong...

Just a one-camera capture of the legendary legendaries: Tommy McCook, Roland Alphonso, Lloyd Knibb, Lloyd Brevett and company (I have to rely on you historia...