Steve McQueen‘s Small Axe, a series of five films about the West Indian experience in the UK in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, is currently airing on Amazon/BBC. The second Small Axe film, Lovers Rock, just ...
A song needs to be exceptional if it’s going to occupy 10 minutes of a 69-minute movie. Steve McQueen’s “Lovers Rock,” one film in the Oscar-nominated director’s five-part “Small Axe” anthology series ...
Steve McQueen’s new “Small Axe” anthology includes a film that centers on an offshoot of reggae that represented big shifts in the music, and in Black British culture. By Jeremy Gordon The lovesick ...
Music is one of the best windows into a culture—and nowhere is that more evident than Jamaica. The Caribbean country is known for its sound above all else, having gifted the globe with six genres of ...
All the way from Kingston, Jamaica is one of the only self-contained groups within contemporary Jamaican music, rock reggae band Raging Fyah. The five-piece band - honored by Jamaica’s Minister of ...