Toppa Top 10: Ten Hockey Players with Caribbean Roots
Hockey players from the islands? There's a lot more than you think.
Pop Style: Ken (Barbados/Brooklyn)
No one's got style quite like the islands: Talking sartorial shop with the most impeccably dressed men and women of the Caribbean and the diaspora.
Watch the Trailer for Porgie & Murda’s “Unusual Suspects” Movie
The debut feature film from Bajan soca stars Leadpipe and Saddis, aka "Porgie & Murda," is set to hit theaters in Barbados.
Hanging with Leadpipe and Saddis… and Porgie and Murda
We caught up with the duo behind Barbados' biggest new soca tunes... and its most popular sitcom.
Another Feeling: Leadpipe & Saddis Meet I-Octane on “Girls Dem Follow”
Barbados' Leadpipe & Saddis drop a new single with I-Octane—and a feature-length movie in their other guise as comedy stars, Porgie & Murda,
LargeUp Presents Jam Central – It’s A Carnival (2014 Summer Soca Mix)
Jam Central's "It's A Carnival" mix rounds up a sampling of the soca that has been running 2014's summer carnivals, from Vincy Mas to Caribana.
Mixtape Mondays: Private Ryan, DJ Mess, DJ Bimshire
Head down to Barbados Crop Over Festival via this week's #MixtapeMondays, with soca mixes from Dj Private Ryan, Dj MeSs + DJ Bimshire
Toppa Top 6: The Caribbean’s Best Book Festivals
A look at the top book fests across the Caribbean, from the Nature Island Literary Festival in Dominica to Jamaica's Calabash International Literary Festival.
Ground Provisions: Oistins, The Fish Capital of Barbados
Words and Photos by Ola Mazzuca—
You start to pick up the smell of something delicious about a half mile to Oistins, on the south coast of Barbados. It’s too fresh, too clean to be that of the hydrogenat... Read More...
Wild Caribbean: The Caribbean’s Most Unusual Animals
Words by Jesse Serwer and Natalie Weiner—
In recognition of Earth Day today, we're celebrating the other side of Caribbean wildlife—by highlighting some of its most strangest and most distinctive anima... Read More...
Visual Culture: Designer Brent Rollins
Words by Natalie Weiner, Photo by Greg Washington —
Brooklyn-based, LA-raised artist and Complex art director Brent Rollins doesn't exactly need to pad his resume. The half-Bajan, half-Vietnamese illustr... Read More...
Toppa Top 10: The Biggest Soca Tunes of 2013
Words by Jam Central, Tishanna Williams and Jesse Serwer—
This year saw soca music stand up and declare itself alongside other international genres. No longer relegated to the Carnival season, soca has b... Read More...