Microkhan by Brendan I. Koerner

Entries Tagged as 'dancehall'

The Sound of St. Georges Cross

January 5th, 2011 · Comments Off on The Sound of St. Georges Cross

Major projects day here at Microkhan HQs, which means lots of reading up on Eldridge Cleaver’s interest in juche and cold-calling retired Naval officers. I trust that you can get through the next 24 hours with the aid of MC Soom T, one of Glasgow’s finest songstresses. Full interview here if you’d like to learn […]

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Ring the Alarm

July 28th, 2010 · Comments Off on Ring the Alarm

A Wired deadline just snuck up on me, so off to hit the keyboard. In my brief absence, please check out this excellent history of Tenor Saw, the dancehall legend who never made it to his 23rd birthday. The singer’s violent demise remains one of music’s great unsolved mysteries: It shouldn’t have come as a […]

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Back from the Land of Shadows

December 22nd, 2009 · Comments Off on Back from the Land of Shadows

Upon recently hearing the classic Super Cat track “Scalp Dem” on WeFunk, we were reminded of a curious incident in dancehall history: Super Cat’s resurrection from the dead. Okay, perhaps it wasn’t quite as dramatic as alll that. But back in May of 1997, the wire services ran a story stating that Super Cat had […]

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