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Screenshot from soca songstress Destra’s “Me Gusta” video, featuring cricketer Ali Khan, via YouTube. Few soca music videos have gone viral to the degree that singer Destra Garcia’s “Me Gusta” has. The song — one of Destra’s offerings for Trinidad and Tobago’s upcoming 2020 Carnival season, which has been viewed over 400,000 times on YouTube — […]
Article byBarbados Toda There was excellent entertainment, fine cuisine, unlimited drinks, festive ambience and a jaw-dropping fireworks display. That’s what patrons at Toast NYE enjoyed at Old Forte, Hilton Barbados from Old Year’s Night in to New Year’s Day. The party crowd ushered in 2020 with a countdown from leading soca band Krosfyah followed by […]
Laurel V Williams DANE “MR KRONIC” LAYNE is hoping to woo judges and win the hearts of fans of the Chutney Soca Monarch 2020 competition with his first-ever chutney soca Look Shanty. Music has always been an integral part of this Penal resident’s life. The idea/inspiration for Look Shanty came about three years ago after […]
Published 30th December 2019 ByEBUZZT Hundreds of new soca tracks have been released ahead of Carnival 2020 and once again, there is the sad rumbling that merely a handful of these songs are being played on the nation’s airwaves in Trinidad and Tobago. A short carnival season brings with it a heightened desire to pull […]
by Michael Mondezie Ah feeling it, yes, ah feeling it! There is an undeniable electric energy in the air as the march towards Carnival 2020 begins in earnest today. Boxing Day has traditionally served as the unofficial “soca switch”: the day when artistes, radio stations and the public at large suddenly remember that we have […]
The 90s undoubtedly marked the Golden Age of underground music zines cataloguing subcultural movements. Without an avalanche of Tumblr accounts offering endless information on what your favourite band is wearing, Soundcloud recommendations about who to listen to next, or Twitter documenting your most-loved guitar player’s childhood fear, publications such as the pioneering DIY zine Sniffin’ […]
Chances are, you are already ruining your potential to succeed in the music industry because you believe in one or more music career myths. How do I know? I am sent e-mail messages on a constant basis by tons of musicians (all seeking the answers to the WRONG questions). These are questions that may seem […]
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