The Major Lazer man has remade 'You Can Get It If You Really Want,' 'Many Rivers to Cross,' and more ..read more

Bob Marley’s classic “Three Little Birds” has joined Spotify’s Billions Club. This is Marley’s first track to reach the landmark. “Three Little Birds,” is a study of beautiful, simple optimism. The song comes from Marley’s Exodus, which is one of the most influential records of all time. Released on June 3, 1977, the record includes not only “Three Little Birds,” but also beloved hits like “Jamming” and “One Love/People Get Ready.” Time magazine has called Exodus “the best album of the 20th century.” The making of the record plays a large part in the BET Award-winning film One Love, which was ..read more

The film One Love won Best Movie at the 2024 BET Awards. Made by Tuff Gong and Paramount Pictures, the picture follows reggae star Bob Marley in and out of the spotlight. Directed by Reinaldo Marcus Green, the movie stars Kingsley Ben-Adir as Marley, Lashana Lynch as Rita Marley, and James Norton as Chris Blackwell, who founded Island Records. The movie was a smash success at the box office, and currently stands as the fifth highest grossing music biopic in the US. First released in theaters on February 14, 2024, the film is now available on streaming, DVD, and Blu-Ray. In other Marley news ..read more

A vocal trio consisting of charismatic frontman and songwriter Winston Rodney together with singers Rupert Willington and Delroy Hines, Burning Spear broke out of the Jamaican underground in 1976 and captured a global audience with their album Marcus Garvey, a politically charged homage to the iconic Jamaican father of Pan-Africanism and black self-determinism. The record’s international success – fueled by the trio’s signing a distribution deal with Chris Blackwell’s Island Records – came after a succession of releases for producer Coxsone Dodd’s Studio One label in the early 70s. In 1976, I ..read more

By the time Junior Murvin released his debut album, Police & Thieves, the lead single had already become the sound of political unrest. The song blared out of sound systems and bars on a hot August day in London during the Notting Hill Carnival in 1976, where tensions between Black Caribbean youth and white police officers boiled over into a full-blown riot, and 160 people were hospitalized. There were conflicting reports about how the violence began – supposedly the arrest of a suspected pickpocket acted as the catalyst, though that was really only the spark. The ongoing harassment of lo ..read more

Island/UMe have shared a new video for Bob Marley’s “Punky Reggae Party,” a track originally released as the B-side of “Jamming” in 1977. The song is available in its extra-rare 12-inch dub version on the 2024 limited edition of Bob Marley’s Exodus. Click to load video The video was directed by Cameroonian graphic artist Maxime Manga, whose main medium is digital collage. The clip seamlessly combines animation with classic photos of Marley and footage from a Boston concert in 1978 to bring the song to life. Bob Marley has been on many minds recently thanks to the 2024 film Bob Marl ..read more

The video for Bob Marley’s “Turn Your Lights Down Low,” featuring Lauryn Hill, has received an official YouTube release. The 1999 single, originally shared as a solo B-side on Bob Marley and the Wailers’ 1977 album Exodus. Click to load video The Lauryn Hill version of ‘Turn Your Lights Down Low” first appeared on the compilation Chant Down Babylon, which collected remixes and covers of Marley’s essential songs performed by major artists of the time including Rakim, The Roots, MC Lyte, and Hill. Marley himself died in May 1981. ’Turn Your Lights Down Low” peaked at No. 1 on the U.K. R&B ..read more

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The smash hit 2024 Bob Marley biopic, Bob Marley: One Love, is set to return to theaters during the week of 4/20 (April 20) to celebrate the popular marijuana-based holiday. Shop the best of Bob Marley’s discography on vinyl and more. The film will hit theaters from April 19-25 in celebration of the holiday. For anyone not wanting to go to their local cinema, the movie is currently streaming on Paramount+. The movie is highlighted by its tremendous soundtrack, which is drawn from several of the albums that launched Marley to stardom: Catch a Fire (1973), Burnin’ (1973), Ra ..read more

The Marley Brothers – Ziggy, Stephen, Julian, Ky-Mani and Damian – announce ‘The Marley Brothers: The Legacy Tour,’ their 22-date run produced by Live Nation which historically marks their first outing together in two decades. The tour will commence on September 5, 2024 at Festival Lawn at Deer Lake Park in Vancouver, BC then continues across the U.S. and Canada through the fall. Shop the best of Bob Marley’s discography on vinyl and more. Bob Marley’s music endures as a beacon of strength, hope, and unity, attracting a growing global fanbase. For over three decades, his sons have each establ ..read more