Jesse Serwer Archives - Page 54 of 59

Mixtape Mondays: Wildlife!, Prince Zimboo, Delly Ranx, Close Connections

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton and Jesse Serwer Blondtron f. Prince Zimboo, Bouncin' Bush Stew (via Mad Decent): If you've heard Major Lazer's Guns Don't Kill People, People Do, you've already been tickle... Read More...

Storm Front: New Video for Daseca’s Category 5 Riddim

Words by Jesse Serwer YouTube has been a blessing and a curse for dancehall videos, enhancing their quantity and visibility but rarely their quality. Director Winston Mayhew's visually stimulating work f... Read More...

World’s Fastest Interview: Exclusive Q&A with Puma Posterbwoys No-Maddz

Words by Jesse Serwer You may have caught Puma's commercials for their new Faas running shoes starring "the world's fastest band" harmonizing their way through Jamaica on TV recently. The members of this... Read More...

Toppa Top 10: Top Gunslinger-Inspired Deejays

Words by Jesse Serwer The Wild West has been a major influence on reggae music since its beginnings in the late '60s, when Spaghetti Westerns like The Good, The Bad and the Ugly were all the rage in Ja... 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...

Rum-Pa-Pum-Pum: Rihanna x Vado, ‘Man Down (Remix)’

Words by Jesse Serwer Here's a tune tailor-made for a springtime weekend: Cam'Ron sidekick/new Interscope signee Vado yesterday turned up on a remix of "Man Down," the rough-and-rugged, reggae-flavored h... Read More...

Bruk Up: Reggae Dancing Workshop X History Lesson

Words by Jesse Serwer When the earliest B-boys were first getting busy on the linoleum floors of the Bronx in the 1970s, no one would have imagined that "hip-hop dance" would one day be offered at every ... Read More...

He Was There: Gappy Ranks on the Earthquake in Japan

Words by Jesse Serwer, via the Guardian A few weeks back, I had the opportunity to interview rising UK reggae star Gappy Ranks for an article, "From Harlesden to Yokohama," which appeared in today's edit... Read More...

LargeUp TV: Lady Saw, Lingerie & the LES

A LargeUp Exclusive Webisode - Words by Jesse Serwer, Photos by DJ Gravy, Video shot and edited by Frank Siringo When LargeUp was offered the opportunity to interview Lady Saw recently, we knew immediate... Read More...

Throwback Thursdays: Sweet Micky “San Ou”

Words by Jesse Serwer and Eddie STATS Houghton Michel Martelly looks presidential as he prepares to tackle one of the world's hardest jobs: hauling earthquake- and poverty-ravaged Haiti back from the bri... 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...

Toppa Top 10: Top 10 Garnet Silk Tunes

Words by Jesse Serwer This past Saturday, April 2, would have been the 45th birthday of one of reggae/dancehall's golden voices: Garnet Silk. A supremely righteous, one-man antidote to the slackful '90s,... Read More...