Eight years ago, as Italian musician/producer Gaudi embarked on his latest dub project, he wanted to expand the genre’s horizons by blending it with jazz. To achieve this he called on some of reggae’s ...

The Comet Is Coming & Soccer96 drummer/composer, Maxwell Hallett (aka Betamax) assembles his Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry-revering, reimagined space-dub group, Champagne Dub, for an eight-track chemical ...

In the 1950s, some of the first waves of a “third stream" music flowed through the works of Gunther Schuller, John Lewis, and others working to harmonize the traditions of American classical (jazz) ...

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BACK IN THE LATE '90S, Portland became an unlikely node in the global circuit of dub music. Dub is a derivation of reggae that came into prominence in Jamaica in the mid-'70s, whose key innovative ...

In indie circles, there’s a rekindled interest in ska, rocksteady, dub and digi dancehall happening as well, primarily in California. Noisy lo-fi acts like Sun Araw and Peaking Lights dabble heavily.

We continue our 2021 Summer Music Series with Boostive, a band based in the San Diego coastal community of Ocean Beach. A few things are clear after spending any amount of time with Boostive. First, ...