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Guns of Navarone: The Best of the Skatalites...

Even as greatest hits packages go, this is an utter gem. Every song is inspired and in a class of its own, whether it's the real version of "I Shot the Sheriff," the hymnlike "No Woman, No Cry," or the sheer joy of "Jamming." Even allowing that Marley never wrote any bad material, Legend is stil...

A Mi Shabba...

Cool Ruler Was the Vanguard of the New Front Line Label and a New Day for Reggae Music from Jamaica Finding an Even Wider Audience. it Established Isaacs as an International Superstar, with It's Confrontational, Yet Groovin Lover's Rock Style..and The HEP....

When Buju Banton emerged from the Kingston, Jamaica, slums in the early '90s, he stirred controversy with a breed of dancehall steeped in the same obsessions with gunplay, sexism, and homophobia that characterized hardcore American hip-hop. But after converting to Rastafarianism and scratching t...

Tembang Sunda: Classical Music from West Java is the first compact disk to be issued out of a larger body of recordings from Indonesia. It is a little known fact that Indonesia is the fourth largest country on Earth with a population approaching 200 million. It is the world's largest Islamic cou...

Taxman...

It's not often that nearly four-decade-old music manages to be both seminal and cutting edge, but these 32 hits from Jamaica's--and the world's--greatest ska outfit are just that. Early ska blended R&B shuffle with mento (Jamaican calypso)--Jamaica's antic response to stateside boogie-woogie. Don Dr...

Gangsta Blues...

Countless thousands of non-English speakers cram stadiums and theaters all over the world, so why (oh why) does it seem so difficult for U.S. audiences to embrace widely a band as clearly worthy of attention as Aterciopelados? Andrea Echeverri sings in Spanish, sure, but the band revels in melding t...