Where Streaming Leaves Reggae Behind
Key albums from Bob Marley, Gregory Isaacs, and The Scientist remain absent from the major platforms, exposing the genre’s archival fragility.
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Vin Gordon’s ‘Musical Bones’ Emerges From a White-Label Run of 300
The 1975 Black Ark session gave trombonist Vin Gordon a rare lead role alongside Lee Perry and The Upsetters, yielding one of reggae’s most elusive artefacts.
New Music Friday: From Skrillex’s SOMA to horsegiirL’s Ritual Debut & More
This Friday’s releases trace a line between two distinct approaches to making music that feels necessary right now. Skrillex delivers a compact, surprise fifth album that folds Brazilian phonk, progressive house and underground techno into a single focused journey. horsegiirL presents her debut as both persona and proposition, a fifteen-track eco-anxious fairytale grown out of ritual and shaped for the speed of the present. The releases in between and around them share the same refusal to waste time or attention.