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Wickie Wackie Music Festival 2025

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Jamaica’s music festivals face limits imposed by Climate Change

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CITY SPLASH 2025

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Addis Pablo; Best of both worlds

By Gladstone Taylor 5 years ago

“Combining I think is just who we are because we come from that. Our roots lead back to Africa, all of us, and Rastafari music and culture, Hailing His Majesty, everything is connected that way. It’s like left foot and right foot. So to represent this, to me, through music is just representing the culture or myself in the best way possible, because it is who we are. The sound is a representation of our being. So when you hear the sound you think of I&I, even if it’s bob marley it has a certain imagery, a certain lifestyle. Some people might think it’s just smoking weed but it has much more to it than that. So the sound is like a signal then, an identification of the people.”

Sly & Robbie and The Legacy of Drum and Bass

By Amilcar Lewis 5 years ago

Drum and Bass are one of the most important sections of any band. A sound so important that it itself has become a musical sub-genre, it is often the mastery of this section that determines what is a memorable hit and what just passes by failing to leave its mark. With Sly & Robbie, Jamaica has one of the world’s most famous and sought after (drum and bass) rhythm sections working

Open Circuit: FIGHTERZ Brawl Round 1

By O'Shae Osbourne 5 years ago

Ready? FIGHTERZ Brawl, Area 51 Gaming Lounge in Kingston was the battle ground for eSports Jamaica’s most recent fighting game tournament. Toting a whopping prize pool of $100,000 JMD shared across 3 games, as well as being sponsored by Pizza Hut the fighting game circuit showed out

2020

By Hakeem Bryan 5 years ago

Being a young Jamaican in an ever-changing world , an ever interactive world allows us to see many viewpoints that fracture our mindset as negativity comes in different forms of mediums within this digital landscape that we call our life. Positive actions comes around as a refreshing morsel of golden curried chicken

Ras-I – Jab, Jab; finding the right hook.

By Gladstone Taylor 5 years ago

“You have to think like a boxer. Dis man ya bigga dan you and stronga dan you but, unuh still in the same weight class. Weh yaw go do. Pick my punches. Im gonna jab here, and move, but I’m gonna make sure that every punch I throw does damage. So every song I drop, must be powerful. Can’t drop weak music.”

BACKAYARD congratulates Koffee on her landmark victory

By Amilcar Lewis 5 years ago

The Backayard team is especially happy to congratulate Koffee as she became the first female winner of the Reggae Grammy in addition to being one of the youngest to receive this honour. Being the people we are the team decided to try and to share our own personal views on what this accolade now means for the starlet and the Jamaican music in general.