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Strictly the Best 46 and 47. Cover artwork by Clovis Brown

Visual Culture: Clovis Designs New ‘Strictly the Best’ Covers

Words by Jesse Serwer— Since 1990, VP Records has released two annual Strictly the Best compilations, compiling the year's biggest tunes in reggae and dancehall onto two separate releases. For this year'... Read More...

Visual Culture: A Q+A with Cartoonist Clovis Brown

Words by Sherman Escoffery, Illustrations by Clovis Brown originally published by the Jamaica Observer— For close to 20 years, Clovis Brown has kept his fingers on the pulse of the Jamaican public with... Read More...

Yabby You, 1946-2010

Words By Jesse Serwer Had it happened any other week, more might have been said about the passing of '70s reggae pioneer Yabby You last Tuesday. But that was the same day the earthquake hit Haiti. News o... Read More...

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