2012 www.giantpandadub.com A promotional blurb refers to In These Times as Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad’s "new psychedelic reggae album." Sure enough, it’s reggae, and of a very attractive kind, but it seems I no longer ...

IGrade Records, 2011 Unforgiving no-nonsense one-drop momentum densely textured brittle tattered breathless mannered chant seemingly featureless landscape of complex literate sound occasional snatches of melodic instrumental surprise challenging us at every turn themes from contemporary Kafka by ...

Foreign Key Records, 2011 Earl Zero has been around the roots reggae scene a long time. That’s perhaps because he has the perfect voice for it: essentially soft and supple, therefore capable of the subtleties ...

[amazon-product align="right"]B0057OOPJ6[/amazon-product]Things are getting to where just about every music compilation with “beat” or “groove” in the title is bound to be a collection of tunes designed for contemporary dance floors. I’m not opposed ...

[amazon-product align="right"]B005HPA8PA[/amazon-product][Hughes Drive Productions, 2011]  The latest from the Huntington Beach, CA-based Simpkin Project is another smart set of inspired and dance-inducing reggae from a band that’s on the rise and sounding great. Their band ...

[amazon-product align="right"]B005T5O9XU[/amazon-product][Cool Breeze Records, 2011] If you’re a reggae artist and you release an album called "Roots and Culture," you had best be certain that the music is reflective of such a title and that ...

[amazon-product align="right"]B002CLKSDO[/amazon-product][Stashang/E2 Recordings, 2009] I don’t know where this guy is from or how his self-titled CD reached me (apparently a couple of years after its release). But whoever Shango Trex is, he can sing, ...