Better World? What's Reggae got to say 'bout changing the world? A lot, it turns out.

Beyond "bunning" (burning) Babylon (iniquity workers), there's actually much said about Unity and "social living." Heck, "One Love" is the anthem of Reggae, and that appeals beyond the Rasta community.

Reggae delivers a unique blend of "word-sound" power, which resonates between the makers & listeners of the music on a spiritually transformative level. Excuse the New Agey jargon, but any enthusiast will tell you Reggae's changed their lives. It "speaks" to their soul.

All music does, but some of it's appealing to a baser (back) side of the spirit, as if dance & romance were all that matters. In fact, that's what Dancehall has done to Reggae: hijacked the agenda. Some would prefer if the mundane were all we thought of (which is how Pop music, even in the Caribbean, can help suppress contemplation), and most of us don't move beyond that, or do so only outside the musical sphere. 

I watched some Hell's Angels recently in a toy parade for the less fortunate. Why don't Reggae folks put their money where their mouth is, and do the same, for strangers. Maybe they/we haven't the money, or feel we are the less fortunate ones deserving of support. But G*d would argue that we all owe it to eachother to love our neighbor and help in any way possible, regardless of our means.

Hence the call to you readers, and the yoke we carry ourselves as promoters of the music, to hold our selves, our artists & musicians to a high standards of human decency and mutual respect. Beyond that, we need to face the fact that whatever hand we were dealt - or wrong world we were born into - sooner or later it becomes OUR world, and the one WE pass along to our children and the next generation. So if we're not pulling our weight: by recycling (or bicycling), helping the sick, and making the world we leave better than the one we inherited, then who are we fooling with our self-righteousness?

Please contact us (ReggaePR@aol.com) with any issues you think we should be covering, or ways in which we could be contributing more, given our line of work, to Tikun Olam (as it is said in Hebrew), or making the world a better place.

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Dub Station & Abijah perform to 8,000 at Festival in Michigan

Abijah & dancer w/Dub Station at the National Arena in Kingston

A composite of Abijah promo images we created as part of his promo

Abijah & members of Dub Station at the Grand Canyon

Shaka Black, touring artist with Dub Station

DS players at Skatalites show with Shaka Black and Glen Grant

New promo image for Bill's Bar Boston

Tom O'brien doing an acoustic set with Dub Station

Skiffington, working with Dub Station since 1993

DS after backing George Nooks, with Dion Knibb

Jus Goodie, toured with Dub Station

DS version x.o backing Tom O'Brien increasingly

Sonbeam at a Festival with Dub Station

Dub Station with Ras Michael & the Sons of Negus, including MC and dear belated friend Ras Junior (right)

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