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Words by Jesse Serwer—
So, we hear there’s one night before we all die in a cataclysmic, earth-terminating event predicated thousands of years ago by the Mayan calendar. If you’re like this dude, you’re preparing for the apocalypse in the 70-by-50-foot diesel-powered “ark” you built with your life savings. If you’re like us, you’re getting ready to party. (This is where we’ll be, for the record).
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Words by Jesse Serwer—
A couple weeks back, we featured the Easy Star All-Stars version of “Billie Jean” with lead vocals by Luciano, the scorching first single off their upcoming Michael Jackson reggae covers album, Thrillah. Now we have the second leak from that project, a version of “Human Nature” with Texas-based singer Cas Haley on vocals, set to appear on the Billie Jean EP dropping tomorrow (June 10). Check out a LargeUp exclusive stream of “Human Nature” below, and look out for the full Thrillah LP (now available for pre-order here), with guest appearances from Mykal Rose, Spragga Benz and more, out Aug 28.
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Words by Jesse Serwer—
Easy Star All-Stars, the musical crew behind the much-celebrated 2003 Pink Floyd reggae tribute Dub Side of the Moon and the Radiohead covers album Radiodread, have been building hype for their upcoming LP over the last few weeks by keeping it’s exact identity a secret, encouraging fans to pick which classic album they thought they were set to tackle. After checking possibilities like Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On and U2′s The Joshua Tree off the list, today they’ve removed the curtain and unveiled Thrillah, a reggae tribute to Michael Jackson’s Thriller due out Aug. 28
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Words by Eddie STATS Houghton
If you read Ghetto Palms in the last two years (or went to a reggae dance or looked up ‘bashment’ in the dictionary) you have probably come across an artist named Busy Signal. I would say that he has been owning dancehall lately (Kartel who?) but ever since I talked about his grimy downtempo flow in FADER 56 it seems like he has been on a mission to own every other genre in the music database. In that time he has dropped multiple soca collabos with the likes of Machel Montano, Bunji Garlin and Faye Ann Lyons, interpolated Phil Collins and the Commodores on his dancehall hooks, released an EPs worth of tributes over Michael Jackson tracks, voiced Baltimore club, samba, weird highlife/afrobeat rhythms and chatted over Kung Fu sound fx and Indian percussion licks so spare that trendy club producers like Douster and SoShifty can’t resist refixing them into rave anthems.
