‘Reggae Inna Dancehall Style': A Conversation with Pekka Vuorinen
As we rock on, moving closer and closer to post #1000, it is my pleasure to share an interview that I held back just for this week. A few weeks back I posted my personal copy of ‘Reggae Inna Dancehall...
View ArticleMidnight Raver Interview With Noel Hawks
Today dear readers, we are proud at Midnight Raver Blog to present you an interview with Noel Hawks. Noel was involved with Dub Vendor in England, with various labels (Pressure Sounds, Blood And Fire,...
View ArticleSteel Pulse “Save Black Music” 12″ (Elektra)
And here we have yet another Steel Pulse vinyl single, “Save Black Music” from the Grammy Award-winning album Babylon The Bandit. Overall, a mediocre effort from Steel Pulse with several outstanding...
View ArticleBlack Echoes magazine (February 14, 1976)
MIDNIGHT RAVER BLOG’S co-editors Glen Lockley and Peter van Arnhem have shared with all of us their own very rare personal copies of Black Echoes magazine. Black Echoes was a popular black music and...
View ArticleLegacy of Bob Marley Concert
Here is an exclusive for you guys that you will only find here at MIDNIGHT RAVER. The Kennedy Center and the Grammy Museum presented a tribute concert to Bob Marley titled “The Legacy of Bob Marley”...
View Article‘Reggae Kinda Sweet’ Photographic Exhibit
Photographer Pogus Caesar’s ‘Reggae Kinda Sweet’ photographic exhibition is at The Drum, Potters Lane, Birmingham UK until 31st August. I recently sat down with the photographer to ask him about his...
View Article“Runnin’ with the torch of freedom…”
Fitting with the Olympics this week that I chose to recall Keith Hudson’s “Torch of Freedom,” a blaze yourself out of hell track that is two parts testosterone, 2 parts adrenaline, and one part bad as...
View ArticleBob Marley Interview, Black Music, June 1976
I love this interview with Bob Marley. He is so close to becoming an international superstar. By this point he has become a huge star in Jamaica and in the UK, making his mark there with the Lyceum...
View Article“Oh, What A Rat Race” by Carl Gayle (Black Music, 1976)
Here is a great article in which Carl Gayle discusses the rush to become famous in the Jamaican music scene circa 1976…
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE! Rare photos of Bob Marley, Wailers at the Apollo Theater, 1979
On Saturday, November 29, 2014, the Wailers band led by original bassist Aston “Family Man” Barrett, will play the legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem, NYC 35 years after Bob Marley and the Wailers made...
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