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Miami Vibes: Rolling Stone Spotlights Dancehall + Best of the Best

Words by Emily Shapiro, Photo by Alex Markow, via Rolling Stone— The annual Best of the Best concert during Urban Beach Weekend in Miami (or what's known as Memorial Day Weekend to the rest of the United... Read More...

Mixtape Mondays: Orange Hill Presents “Electro Bashy—Welcome to Our Sound” Premiere

Words by Jesse Serwer— We're interrupting our regularly scheduled Mixtape Mondays programming this week to bring you a very special world premiere slash public service announcement. England's Orange H... Read More...

Twitter Contest: Win Tickets to See Inner Circle and Third World in Miami, 2/24

Words by LargeUp Crew— If you know your reggae, you know Inner Circle and Third World go way back. Like all-the-way-to-the-beginning-of-each-others' careers back. In fact, most primary members of Third ... Read More...

I-Tunes: I-Octane ‘Crying to the Nation’ Album Stream x ‘Til Kingdom Come’ Video

Words by Jesse Serwer, via MTV Iggy— After a heavy two-year run of hits, one of dancehall's biggest new names, I-Octane, is finally dropping an album. Crying for the Nation (VP/Scikron), featuring past h... Read More...

Toppa Top 10: The Top Dancehall Riddims of 2011

Words by DJ Autograph and Hanna Herbertson— For our last countdown looking back at the highlights of 2011, we had LargeUp contributor/Brooklyn selector DJ Autograph and choreographer (and now a DJ, too... Read More...

Toppa Top 10: The Year’s Best Dancehall Singles

Words by Jesse Serwer, DJ Theory and Emily Shapiro There was no exact science to compiling this list—it's a mixture of the year's biggest dancehall tunes, and some of our personal favorites. By no one'... Read More...

Video: Watch I-Octane’s “Informer A Work”

Words by Jesse Serwer Arguably the most consistent and certainly one of the most prolific new reggae/dancehall artists to emerge from Jamaica recently, I-Octane is having a big year. Having built up a so... Read More...

Mixtape Mondays: Million Stylez x Safari Sound, Estelle x Don Cannon and D’Bandit

Words by DJ Gravy So while our resident Mixtape Mondays contributor DJ Theory is pretty much Amish til Northwest Massachusetts gets its power turned back, I told him I'd hold it down (and that a generato... Read More...

Mixtape Mondays: Triple Exe, Kalibandulu, Livity Movements, I-Octane, Natural Mystic

Words by DJ Theory The vibes are set for summer here at LargeUp, and we got you covered with new mixtape heat to welcome the sunny months ahead. DJ Triple Exe, Pure Winery 16: Madddd ting for summer ... 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...

Dread & Alive: Every Hero Needs His Theme Music

Words by Eddie STATS Houghton Not content to be the only Rastas in the comic book universe (has there been another? feel free to put us up) Dread & Alive--recently available in newsletter form now th... Read More...

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