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Australian rock band Jet's new release Shaka Rock is a really good pure rock and roll album.

Starting today reggae fans will be treated to a treasure trove of first-time digital releases with tracks and albums unavailable in any form for some 30 years exclusively on iTunes.

Starting today reggae fans will be treated to a treasure trove of first-time digital releases with tracks and albums unavailable in any form for some 30 years exclusively on iTunes.

Starting today reggae fans will be treated to a treasure trove of first-time digital releases with tracks and albums unavailable in any form for some 30 years exclusively on iTunes.

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Starting today reggae fans will be treated to a treasure trove of first-time digital releases with tracks and albums unavailable in any form for some 30 years exclusively on iTunes.

Rocksteady ruled Jamaica in the mid- to late '60s, bridging the gap between the more up-tempo ska and slower, more bass-heavy roots reggae.

Leroy Sibbles is no stranger to Toronto reggae fans. He spent more than a decade among us in the 1970s and '80s trying to establish a beachhead for a career liftoff in North America and Europe, and managed, along with the likes of Stranger Cole and other expats living and working out of the Jamaican enclave here, to extend reggae's appeal in new ...

What came before reggae music? Full points if you answered rocksteady. Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae is a new documentary about Jamaican music in the 1960s.

Sacramento Production Services provided sound reinforcement for the recent three-day Sierra Nevada World Music Festival, which featured a host of top roots music talent from around the globe, including King Sunny Ade, Sly & Robbie, Femi Kuti , Junior Reid, The Heptones, The Abyssinians and many more.

Asked the origin of his enduring nickname, Lee Perry is inclined to say, "All things start from Scratch." It is a characteristically blustery if uncharacteristically coherent pronouncement from the certifiably loopy septuagenarian.

Jerry Case ; Simon Washburn ; Frank Thornton ; Thomas Case ; Ryan Schmollinger ; Nic Hanks ; Luis Flores ; John "Musclemouth" Lugo ; Robert Valdez ; Sal Correa ; Josh Divicenzo KINDRED SPIRITS: The Skatalites, The Ethiopians, The Heptones, The Melodians, Pat Kelly, The Maytals, The Wailers, Desmond Dekker, plus American jazz and soul artists "In My ...