Art Archives - Page 8 of 14

Take I-Man Fi No Toy: Major Lazer Action Figure

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton Speaking of Mad Decent, Major Lazer--the cyborg mercenary that is the face of the wildly successful leftfield dancehall musical project (and now Adult Swim cartoon)--has fin... Read More...

Throwback Thursdays: Midi Maxi & Efti “Bad Bad Boys”

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton I got serviced with copies of Midi, Maxi & Efti's albums and singles (there were 3) back when I was briefly the "reggae director" (and by "director" I mean: "only DJ who... Read More...

Outer Active: Tasha Rozez x IFrogz x Dread & Alive

Words by DJ Gravy You may recall we put the universe up on Dread & Alive last year, when the rasta comic book released its first reggae soundtrack, Dread & Alive's The Lost Tapes Volume 1, provid... Read More...

Fire Starter: Trailer for Bob Marley Doc “Making of A Legend”

Words by Jesse Serwer In March we told you about Bob Marley: Making of a Legend, the documentary that Jamaican actress/model/photographer Esther Anderson has made using footage she shot of a young Bob Ma... Read More...

Si Cuba: Cuban Art Comes to New York

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton Ever since this Obama character took office, we've been hearing about a warming in relations between the largest island in the Caribbean and its northern neighbor. But so fa... Read More...

Island in the Sun: Chris Blackwell x New York Public Library

Words by Jesse Serwer Back in August, we told you about Keep on Running, Rizzoli Books' coffee-table tome on Island Records. Timed to coincide with the massively influential and still very much active re... Read More...

Behind The Seen: Vybz Kartel x Dre Skull’s “Go Go Wine” Video Shoot

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton, via Mixpak I don't want to boast (much) but I was just in Jamaica, parring with Vybz Kartel and Brooklyn producer Dre Skull as they prepared to release their summer album p... Read More...

Visual Culture: Jamaica Reggae Film Festival

Words by Jesse Serwer It's been a big year for the intersection of Caribbean music and movies, from the smart reggae-and-calypso soundtrack in British director Stevan Riley's outstanding West Indies cric... Read More...

Q+A with ‘Fire in Babylon’ Director Stevan Riley

Words by Jesse Serwer We've been looking forward for a while to Fire in Babylon, the reggae- and calypso-soundtracked documentary about the history-making West Indies cricket teams of the 1970s and '80s ... Read More...

Up in The Sky: Ziggy Marley Unveils ‘Marijuanaman’ Comic

Words by Eddie Stats Everybody celebrates 4/20 in their own way. You might catch a Collie Buddz show or download a paranoid rap EP and listen to it a hotel room with the shades drawn. Ziggy Marley decide... Read More...

Shotta Culture: Jamaican Movie ‘Out The Gate’ to Play U.S Theaters

Words by Jesse Serwer Jamaica has produced its share of well-known movies (The Harder They Come, Dancehall Queen, etc.), but very few have caught on at theaters internationally, even in the diaspora capi... Read More...

Cable Clash: Major Lazer Cartoon Characters Revealed!

Words by Jesse Serwer (via Mad Decent) Talk of a Major Lazer series on the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block has circulated for a minute, and Switch discussed its progress in an interview with the Onio... Read More...