February 11, 2007Posted to the web February 12, 2007KampalaTHE Tuff Gong reggae theme night at Ange Noir discotheque has not only made one year, but also a mark as the biggest reggae night on the entertainment scene. Jamaica and the UK bowed down and came to Kampala last Saturday to celebrate the Tuff Gong night.And since Bob Marley is credited to be the father of reggae music, icon of Rastafar...
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A chunk of 70's reggae music that had been locked up in the archives of the former Jamaica Broadcasting Corp. are gone. The sketchy act is a dis on the Jamaican government who people accuse of not properly maintaining the archives, according to the AP.The theft was noticed recently by workers for the new Public Broadcasting Corp. of Jamaica who went to the old JBC building looking for archived ...
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Oscar-winning film-maker Jonathan Demme has taken over from Martin Scorsese as director of an authorized documentary about Jamaican reggae icon Bob Marley.The untitled film is set to be released on 6 February 2010 to mark the 65th anniversary of the musician's birth, reports the BBC.??Marley died of cancer in 1981 at the age of 36.??Bob Marley's son Ziggy, who will act as executive producer, sa...
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Rita Marley is notorious for her tight grip on the licensing and rights to Bob Marley's multimedia legacy. Every photo, every song, every document of the beloved singer published after his death has to be approved by his widow. And she usually says no. So when news broke that The Weinstein Company was making a movie adaptation of Rita's controversial book "No Woman, No Cry," I naturally assu...
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Martin Scorsese could be resting on the laurels of his Rolling Stones documentary "Shine A Light" but instead he has set his sights on a new music film. Scorsese announced that the same power-trio that made "Shine A Light" possible will begin working on a new documentary about Bob Marley. The flic was approved by the Marley Estate and will be produced in part by Tuff Gong Pictures. An articl...
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Always at the forefront of revolution - the 30th anniversary of Bob Marley's Exodus is being celebrated with the album's release on the new music formats USB Memory Stick and Micro SD Memory Card. Marley has entered the Matrix. 4000 copies of the USB version in glorious red, green and gold include the entire album of music plus 3 video tracks recorded in June 1977 at the Rainbow Theatre in Lo...
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This add in the Eastbay Express shows that Oakland, California is setting the initiative for the entire country...and will begin a tax on Medical Marijuana.Which explains the amount of "new hipsters downtown"This weeks edition. Back page Now for some more topic related tunes Mooska
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Hilco Consumer Capital has bought half the rights to Bob Marley's name for $20 million from his family, Wall Street Journal reports (via Gawker). The company now plans to use Marley's likeness to food items, clothing, and video games. James... There's more on this story at the following link...
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The Bob Marley family has the heavy task of managing his legacy and his estate. Rita Marley personally decides what is good for his posthumous image and her bank account. It is very difficult sometimes to win her approval to publish books, cds, dvds and whatnot that use images of the late legend or his music or words. So, this comes as quite a fantastic surprise - Roots, Rock, Remixed will b...
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Rare Marley, Hendrix Concerts to Be Sold OnlineNASHVILLE (Billboard) - Vintage concert performances by such acts as Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bob Marley and Jimi Hendrix will soon join the nearly 500 recordings already available for download purchase at the music and memorabilia site Wolfgang's Vault. The additions were made possible through a deal between Universal Music Group (UMG) and Wolfgang's Vault...
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I have seen the future, and it is filled with conscious reggae. Not too long ago, Island celebrated the 30th anniversary of Bob Marley's Exodus album by reissuing it on USB and Micro SD digital devices, as well as mp3, CD and vinyl. Yesterday, the Anglican Church in Jamaica announced that the next publication of its church hymnal will include Peter Tosh's "Psalm 27" and Bob Marley's "One Love...
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Check out this video clip on Mark Johnson's documentary "Playing For Change: Peace Through Music":http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/12052008/watch3.htmlThe film brings together musicians from around the world — from blues singers in a waterlogged New Orleans, to chamber groups in Moscow and a South African choir — they celebrate songs familiar and new, to touch something common in each of us.
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The song for this post is "Dervish", from the first Shinjuku Zulu release, at iTunes "HERE":http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=7899232&s=143441&i=7898192So yesterday (Saturday) morning I had a couple people interested in the "art":http://web.mac.com/neuphoria/iWeb/K.I.A.%20-%20Art/K.I.A.%20Art.html come over to my studio to look at my remixable and static pai...
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Earlier this week, Verizon Wireless reached an agreement with Universal Music Group which allowed their users to purchase ringtones from the reggae legend. This was excellent news for Marley fans, his family however, was not so pleased upon hearing of the deal. According to Marley's estate, Fifty Six Hope Road Music Limited, this new partnership was signed "without the permission of the Marley ...
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Happy Birthday Bob! Miss you. Picking a favorite Bob Marley song is impossible, and no one has ever done it without regret, ever. This is definitely up there on my list though. Lyrics sound like some wise Native American talk. If I had an Indian name I would be Chief Small Axe. Sorry to get off topic, Bob. If you could only listen to one artist for the rest of your life, who would it be? "I...
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