Fashion Fridays: Lovers Rock Style with Hollie Cook
The UK Lovers Rock queen gives us a peek at her personal style in NYC.
Eye Against Eye: Win Bad Brains Sunglasses + Ski Goggles
Words by LargeUp Crew—
Sunglasses brand Arnette has produced a limited-edition line of sunglasses and ski/snowboard goggles inspired by the Bad Brains. The highly-influential band fused reggae and dub wi... Read More...
LargeUp Premiere: Wildlife! x Ward 21, “No Future”
Words by Jesse Serwer—
It was definitely a great moment when the burgeoning punk rock scene met up with its Jamaican cousin—reggae—in mid '70s London. The union added musical depth to punk, and its influ... Read More...
Boricua Beatles: The Ghetto Brothers’ Vintage Puerto Rican Rock
Words by Jesse Serwer—
In the South Bronx of the early 1970s, just around the time when Afrika Bambaataa and his Black Spades gang were refocusing their energies into community activism and music, the lead... Read More...
LargeUp TV: The Jolly Boys’ New Wave Mento
Words and Direction by Jesse Serwer, Photos and Video by Georgia Blake
We were fascinated to learn the story of Jamaica's Jolly Boys after hearing of them through their cover of Amy Winehouse's "Rehab" l... Read More...
2000Tone: Punky Reggae Lives!
Words by Eddie STATS Houghton
In the recent Shabba issue of FADER I described dancehall like this:
" It’s as if the countervailing forces of punk and reggae, which famously clashed on the streets of l... Read More...