Last night’s Lee Scratch Perry gig at Toronto’s Danforth Music Hall was always going to be an event. The 81-year-old is that rare thing in music, an actual living legend. When the man who invented reggae steps to the microphone, he builds a kind of tension few octogenarians can muster. The last thing we needed … Continue reading Lee Scratch Perry – The Upsetter
Category: Dub
Panda Dub – Shapes and Shadows
A lot of what you find filed under dub these days bears little resemblance to the Jamaican pioneers of the 1960s. Those early geniuses - King Tubby, Lee Scratch Perry and the rest - were tasked with producing reggae single B-sides as cheaply as possible. In the process they invented a new genre to which today’s purveyors … Continue reading Panda Dub – Shapes and Shadows
