HIRIE’s official video for “Renegade” featuring Nahko

HIRIE is back in the news again after the recent release of her latest full length album Wandering Soul released in mid-August 2016 that peaked at #1 on Billboard Reggae Charts and #10 on Billboard Heatseekers Album Chart, and #151 on Billboard Top 200! With a new album comes new music videos. On September 8th, […]

John Brown’s Body ‘Fireflies’ album review

East coast based John Brown’s Body has built a name for themselves and has been creating beautiful music by bending and molding multiple genres and turning them into something completely different, original and unique to only John Brown’s Body. Released on September 9th, Fireflies is the band’s most recent offering, delivering a sound that lives […]

Bumpin’ Uglies ‘Keep It Together’ album review

Keep It Together is the upcoming LP from Annapolis, Maryland’s Bumpin Uglies, showcasing the band’s ethereal ska/punk/reggae melodies and infectious hooks. Following on from their Better.Faster.Stronger EP in 2016, Bumpin Uglies seem to cover all the spectrums of music you’d hope to find in an album. These guys can hammer down but they also show […]

Premiere: Spiritual Rez “Together Always” featuring HIRIE

Boston’s six piece reggae-rock funkateers that call themselves Spiritual Rez has teamed up with Southern California’s most beloved songstress HIRIE to release a brand new track today exclusively on Top Shelf Reggae titled “Together Always.” Spiritual Rez is gearing up for their fourth studio album due out October 7th, 2016 titled Setting in the West […]

Coco featuring Protoje “Ova Here”

Coco links up with big, bad and heavy Jamaican reggae artist Protoje for a proper Carnival track “Ova Here.” Fuelled with serious bassline over drums & keys, this track shows Coco’s versatility as he spits over a more darker beat and shows him play his position as a flow-master. “Feels such a privilege to work […]

Gallery: Thunder Vibes Reggae Festival II

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Gary Nesta Pine releases ‘Revelations’ album

Legendary Jamaican reggae pioneer Gary Nesta Pine not only has an impressive history in the genre, but has had an integral role in shaping the music we hear today. Gary became the lead singer for The Wailers band in 1998. This legendary band lead by Aston “Family Man” Barrett, performed and created many hits with […]

Damian Marley “Nail Pon Cross” music video

With his forthcoming album titled “Stony Hill” slated to be released on October 28th 2016, the GRAMMY award winning artist Damian ‘Jr Gong’ Marley released the controversial music video for the lead single “Nail Pon Cross.” According to Marley, the video is meant to encourage the viewers of the video to have “more tolerance and […]

Premiere: Lior Ben-Hur’s new single and video “Roads of Creation”

Born in Jerusalem, Israel and now calling San Francisco, California home, reggae artist Lior Ben-Hur along with his eight piece band have been working tirelessly towards their new debut full length album So I Wander. Today, Lior Ben-Hur is premiering the music video for their new single “Roads of Creation” exclusively for readers of Top […]

The 2016 Emerald Cup artist announcement

History will be made once again the second weekend of December when the 13th Annual Emerald Cup returns to Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa, California. The Emerald Cup, now breaking into its first decade, will once again celebrate the cannabis harvest and bring the marijuana community together again.  “we’ve seen the event and experience […]

HIRIE’s ‘Wandering Soul’ album review

Wandering Soul is the highly anticipated sophomore full length album from Philippine-born HIRIE. With this release the band culminates just about every style that they have played over the years and incorporates it into one album consisting of eleven tracks of tight hooks and unprecedented arrangements. 2013s self titled album saw the band heavily exploring […]

California Conscious Music Festival 2016

UPDATE: The California Conscious Music Festival set for Sunday, September 18 at SOMO Village Event Center in Rohnert Park has been postponed until summer of 2017. Ticketfly will be issuing a full refund to ticket buyers. Autumn is just around the corner and the first annual California Conscious Music Festival (aka CaliCon) awaits you! CaliCon […]

Fortunate Youth ft. Marlon Asher & The Green “Pass The Herb”

The nonstop touring group that call themselves Fortunate Youth really know how to bring in the summer vibes with their very own animated music video for the track “Pass The Herb.” featuring Marlon Asher and The Green. The four minute and nineteen second (Really??) homage to passing the herb is not only fun to watch, […]

California Roots 2016: Day three

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Stick Figure announce Fall 2016 dates with The Movement

Stick Figure is an American reggae and dub band based in Southern California. The group has released six full-length albums, all of which were written and produced by frontman Scott Woodruff, a singer-songwriter who until 2009 was based in Massachusetts. In 2012 Woodruff released the fifth Stick Figure album, Burial Ground to critical acclaim. The album […]