After a Hiatus, Miami’s 2019 Nine Mile Reggae Music Fest Resurfaced With a Stellar Line-Up

The 2019 edition of Nine Mile Music Festival returned to Miami’s Virginia Key Beach Park with a smorgasbord of reggae music sounds and entertainment after a two year hiatus.  Founded in 1993 under the name Bob Marley Festival by Cedella Booker, mother of the regga icon, the event is known nowadays as Nine Mile Music […]

Buju Banton removes Song “Boom Bye” from Catalog

Saying he stopped performing his notoriously homophobic 1992 dancehall tune “Boom Bye” long ago in 2007, Jamaican-born reggae star Buju Banton has removed the song from his catalog, any platform his can control, and any place his has influence over. The ban comes only three months following Banton’s release from a United States prison after […]