The Green are one of the fastest rising bands in reggae today. Their self- titled debut album was named Best Reggae Album of 2010 by iTunes, made Billboard’s 2010 Year-End Reggae Chart, and won Best Reggae Album at Hawaii’s 2011 Na Hoku Hanohano Awards. NZ IWI Radio have been serviced 2 two tracks...
EASY STAR ALL-STARS – are pioneers of covering entire albums! Something that has since caught on in many genres! They now return with their 4th reggae tribute, this time tackling the “Greatest Selling Album of All Time” – Michael Jackson’s THRILLER! This album brings back several of the reggae...
On-U Sound Presents Lee Scratch Perry Nu Sound And Version’ – to give it it’s full title – contains reworked, remixed and re-interpretated versions of 11 Adrian Sherwood-produced Lee Perry classics. Reggae legend Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry first began working with On-U Sound in the late 1980. Initially...
With the LP work of Pink Floyd (2003's Dub Side of the Moon), Radiohead (2006's Radiodread), and the Beatles (2009's Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band) already in their past, the Jamaican/American studio band known as Easy Star All-Stars were coming upon a decade of classic album tributes with...
Ikonika has always been a maverick talent and her music has always been fun – aside from a reputation for being one of the best DJs in the business, the prescient electronics of her 2010 debut ‘Contact, Want, Love, Have’ were something of a prequel to what people started to call post-dubstep. Her...
Escapades Dreadzone, delighted us all when they flew into the commercial domain with the unique, genre busting dub, folk, electronic dance epic Second Light which featured their first ground breaking top 40 hit Little Britain back in 96. The band formed by ex Big Audio Dynamite member Greg Roberts,...
Pull My Hair Back Jessy Lanza's debut album ‘Pull My Hair Back’, co-written and co-produced with Jeremy Greenspan from Junior Boys, is a 2013 flagship for what electronic pop could sound like, stripped of bloated, behaviourist impulses that treat listeners like lab rats. It's graceful and erotic...
Thirty years after they recorded their debut long player, 1984's ‘Takin The Strain’, Bristol's roots reggae pioneers Talisman have found enough space in their busy live schedule to record their third studio album, ‘I-Surrection’, to be released via Sugar Shack Records on 30th September. Having...
Reggae Archive Records launched with an album from Birmingham band Eclipse and we've always planned to return to British Reggae Midlands's heartland, home to so many great bands and source of so many great records. We got our chance to return to the Black Country when we were contacted by...
Heartbeat Records was set up in Bristol in 1978 by local folkie-type musician Simon Edwards and music store owner Tony Dodds to release the debut single by Bristol punk band Social Security. John Peel dubbed ‘I Don't Want My Heart to Rule My Head’ “Charmingly rustic”, but then he would. With a free...
2 part extremely limited vinyl pressing, spread across two separate LPs, complete with screen printed sleeves and sleeve note insert. Between them the two records contain all 15 tracks. For Reggae Archive Records latest lovingly compiled and annotated testament to the nascent UK roots/dub scene of...
‘This album is like the missing link in Bristol's musical history. The good albums that is!!’ – GEOFF BARROW – PORTISHEAD As the 1970s blurred into the 1980s, the sparks generated by the City's punk bands with their ‘can do attitude’ to the music business ignited and Bristol's music scene burst...
Shaggy & Sly and Robbie joined forces to produce a truly authentic back to the classic roots reggae album featuring the king of lover's rock legend Beres Hammond, Pop R&B star Ne-Yo, Damian ‘Jr Gong’ Marley, Cocoa Tea, Joe, Jimmy Cozier, Konshens, Tessanne Chin, Peetah Morgan, Tarrus Riley,...
Hollie Cook – the daughter of Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook – returns with her second album proper – the ethereal and toetappingly catchy Twice – produced by Prince Fatty. Twice sees Hollie’s obvious love of reggae joined by other influences including Bond-like strings, Brazilian percussion, dark...
EASY STAR Fourth full-length release, was produced by the Socal-based Rebelution (Rachmany, Rory carey/keyboards, Marley d. Williams/bass, and Wesley Finley/drums), and recorded in Miami and Burbank, Ca between September and December of last year. The album features special guest appearances by...
2009 release from the Dub/Reggae tribute outfit, a fab reworking of The Beatles' classic 1967 Sgt. Pepper album. Following the critical success of 2003's Dub Side Of The Moon and 2006's Radiodread, get ready for the Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band! The album features guest vocals from an...
The long-awaited follow up to the critically-acclaimed, still-charting-after-three-years Dub Side Of The Moon is a complete reggae version of Radiohead's OK Computer. Featuring guest appearances by Toots & The Maytals, Citizen Cope, Morgan Heritage, Horace Andy, Sugar Minott, Frankie Paul and...
John Brown's Body – pioneer of the U. S. Reggae scene – returns with their first full-length studio album since 2008's Billboard #1 Reggae album release ‘Amplify’! The creators of Future Roots sound who have sold over 70,000 records in their career, kept busy touring and resurfaced with the JBB IN...
First Light is the first full-length album of original songs from EASY STAR ALL-STARS. The band that brought you Dub Side of the Moon, Radiodread and Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Dub Club. The band have built a huge following around the world, and have played shows in over 30 countries on 6...
When Talisman finished recording their latest album “I-Surrection”, Sugar Shack gave the unmixed master recordings to Dave ‘Oldwah’ Sandford. Dave was the man given the job of mixing the unfinished tracks on the Capital Letters archive album “Reality”. He describes his take on the music as “a piece...
