The Jamaica Observer’s Entertainment Desk continues with the 25th of its biweekly feature looking at seminal moments that have helped shape Jamaica over the past 60 years. NO one has had as profound ...

Dub music pioneer King Tubby; Pre-dub, pre-reggae Mento Madness; Joplin & The American Ragtime Ensemble; Solo work by Yes guitarist Steve Howe; The wobbly, oscillating sounds of for stars; Former ...

King Tubby has been dead for fifteen years, the victim of a still-unsolved murder in Jamaica, yet he remains among the most respected figures in reggae, credited with the innovations that gave ...

This newly-reissued 1982 dub reggae album carries historical heft as one of the last times three of the form’s titans would work together. There’s a halcyon sweetness to its 10 mellow grooves. Just ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. They say the pioneers get the arrows and the settlers get the land, yet King Tubby was always lord of his ...

King Tubby’s Prophecies of Dub, a 16-song vinyl album, was first released in 1976 and reissued in the 1990s. On January 31, British company Pressure Sounds re-released the project as King Tubby’s ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. AudioThing has released a one-stop Dub Station plugin that comes direct from Jamaica. Created in ...

I first heard this record while I was going to luthier school in Arizona (where you learn to make and repair stringed instruments). I’d played in a few ska bands growing up, but this wasn’t the kind ...

David Rodigan looks back at the life of the ‘Dub Originator’, Osborne Ruddock, AKA King Tubby, and the influence Dub has on the music we listen to today. Through talking to his friends and colleagues, ...

The duo Diatribes—d'incise (a.k.a. Laurent Peter) and Cyril Bondi—are the driving forces behind the INSUB label on which many of their recordings have been released, either as Diatribes or within ...

Dub music pioneer King Tubby; Pre-dub, pre-reggae Mento Madness; Joplin & The American Ragtime Ensemble; Solo work by Yes guitarist Steve Howe; The wobbly, oscillating sounds of for stars; Former ...