Bob Marley

Top Five Underrated Reggae Bands, According to the Lions

By: Brittany Woolsey When people think of reggae music, Bob Marley usually comes to mind. But Dan Ubick--guitarist/producer of the Lions--acknowledges some possibly lesser-known names. While the band prep for Saturday's show at Alex's Bar in Long Beach, we ask Ubick to reflect on the top five underr ... More >>

Guitarist Al Anderson Won't Let Anyone Take His Wailers Status Away

Despite years of lawsuits and fallings out, Bob Marley's guitarist is still rocking steady

Original Wailers' Al Anderson Went Through Legal Hell to Preserve the Legacy of Bob Marley's Backing Band

Original Wailers executive producer and guitarist Al Anderson (featured in the paper this week) joined Bob Marley and the Wailers in the wake of Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer's departure from the band, working with Marley from 1974 until his death in 1981. For Anderson, a U.S.-born, Berklee-trained se ... More >>

Reggae Legends The Wailers To Play Long Beach This Saturday

See Also: *2J's Cocktail Lounge Goes Country on the Weekends, Apparently it Brings in the Chicks *311 - Slightly Stoopid - Verizon Amphitheater - 8/24/12 *Summer Sensation Concert Rallys Young, Santa Ana Community Organizers Everyone knows who Bob Marley is, right? Alright, cool. Now that we've es ... More >>

On the Line: Arthur Gonzalez of Roe Restaurant & Fish Market, Part Two

Who needs three days what you can get done in two? We're tightening up the OTL format to allow more time to eat out work on other interviews. Art provides a little more insight on his life outside of Roe, then treats us to a fan favorite recipe. Oh, and their dining space is on track to be restauran ... More >>

Do the Reggae: Hollywood Zion

Five days of reggae royalty, mixing it up onscreen

Five Most Whitewashed Reggae Songs Ever

These days, reggae evokes images of hippies, dreadlocks, good ganja and good vibes, but the genre, which developed from ska, mento and R&B music in the 1960s, wasn't always a college dorm room staple. Maybe it was Eric Clapton's 1974 cover of Bob Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff" that helped white p ... More >>

Happy Birthday, Bob Marley! Five Awesome Products to Celebrate With

​Robert Nesta Marley, mellow mood maker, our duppy conqueror, bringer of positive vibrations, would've been 61 today. And since he's passed away after giving us the gift of his beautiful music, you can celebrate by blasting Kaya on repeat. Then you can go shopping for yourself and buy these Bob Ma ... More >>

Five of Rock & Roll's More Unique Baby Names

​We can't get enough of Blue Ivy Carter here at Heard Mentality. In honor of her birth, we decided to do a little bit more research to find more fun baby names. After paying tribute to the oddest names in hip-hop and R&B yesterday, today we're going to take at their rock brethren, who named th ... More >>

Top Five Wailers Songs You Don't Have To Be High To Enjoy

​Bob Marley's Wailers will be performing their classic album Uprising at the House of Blues tonight. The Wailers, who are the remaining members from Bob Marley and The Wailers, formed in 1981 after Marley's death. Though a Wailer's show may bring out a very particular type of tree-hugger, you don' ... More >>

The Wailers perform 'Uprising'

House of Blues

Summer Soundclash 2011

House of Blues

2011 Vans Warped Tour in Ventura Last Sunday

​Vans Warped TourVenturaJuly 3, 2011Since its 1995 inception, the Vans Warped Tour has tried to be a youthful, day-long gritty, grimy window into festival culture, all while representing the punk rock music market. A check-in with the 2011 tour confirms that on the first front, at least, Warped h ... More >>

Pato Banton

Tiki Bar

Rock, Rum and the OC Roller Girls

Brandon Ferguson​Some say the sport of roller derby is experiencing a resurgence--but it probably never really went away. Though its 1970s heydey has long since passed , the commitment to the sport demonstrated by the girls who don old-timey skates, fishnets and knee pads is impressive. 

The Upsetter

Art Theatre

Win a Pair of Tickets to Ragga Muffins Festival on Saturday, Feb. 19

Beth StirnamanJulian Marley playing at Ragga Muffins Festival Feb. 23, 2009​It's time again for the annual Ragga Muffins Festival to take over Long Beach--and this year, the festival is dedicated to Bob Marley who passed nearly 30 years ago (yes, it has been that long since the music legend l ... More >>

TGIF: Snoop Dogg, Ky-Mani Marley, Devil's Brigade, Smith Westerns and More

​Friday kicks off a busy weekend, first with Devil's Brigade playing Alex's Bar in Long Beach with Roger Miret and the Disasters and Viva Hate. Devil's Brigade just released their debut album, but it's been ten years in the making--as Rancid fans well know. The group is a long-running side project ... More >>

Bob Marley and His 'Songs of Freedom' Live On, Though He Left Us Far Too Early

The man and his music live on.​On Sunday, Jamaica's favorite son and reggae's greatest torchbearer, Nesta Robert "Bob" Marley, would be turning 66. His career came and went quickly but certainly left a profound impact. Though he passed nearly 30 years ago, his music remains just as popular, his me ... More >>

The Kottonmouth Kings: 'We're Too Stoned to Come Up With A Good Answer'

​Marijuana graduated from being just a garden variety intoxicant in the Kottonmouth Kings' world a long-ass time ago. Instead, the self-ordained "rip-hop" outfit from Placentia have spent their decade-plus-long career exalting the plant as if it were some kind of transcendental manna made to be co ... More >>

Matisyahu

House of Blues

Thank God It's Friday: Shows You Don't Want To Miss

What are you up to this weekend? There's a whole slew of shows for you to watch the next few days--here's a few you must see.​July 23, FridayTonight Ziggy Marley appears at the Pacific Amphitheatre in Costa Mesa, bringing his easy-going take on life and love across the board to the OC Fair crowd ... More >>

Katchafire

House of Blues

Four Acts To Consider This Week at the OC Fair

Martina McBride is performing at the OC Fair this year​For those who got their first official taste of the OC Fair this weekend, we hope that our little take on this year's must-see (and must-miss) live shows was helpful. But in case you haven't read it yet--or it's found it's way to the the botto ... More >>

Free Shit: Tix to Toots & the Maytals at Galaxy Theatre, Santa Ana

You don't get much more roots reggae than the Maytals. The group is credited with being first act to use the word "reggae" in song. Written by leader Toots Hibbert, "Do the Reggay" came out in Jamaica and then the U.K. in 1968. My favorite Maytals song, "Pressure Drop," appears on the 1972 Harder ... More >>

Happy 4/20!!!!

To boring people, April 20 means two things: the anniversary of the Columbine massacre or Hitler's birthday. To stoners, it's something way cooler.Because stoners can't agree on anything other than, yes, they should smoke another bowl, the origins of 4/20 vary. Some say it's police code. Some say it ... More >>

To Do This Weekend 2/20-2/22

The Great Skate, Friday-Sunday 11 a.m. through March 15Irvine's Great Park (you know, home to that dollar-sucking Great Balloon) brings the simple, youthful joy of ice skating to the park in an attempt to well, just do something fun and care-free for the community in these bleak times.Great Park, S ... More >>

K'Naan

Ragga Muffin Festival

[Locals Only] Mr. Xquisit, 'Hypnotix Muzik'

[Trendzilla] Musicians, Fans and Fashions

[Locals Only] The Stemz, 'Tinfoil Hatman'

Cutting Edge

Meredith Monk

The Rasta Fire Next Time

Nearly 30 Years On, Punk Legends Bad Brains Are Still Burning Twice As Bright

Arks

Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry

Survivors of Madchester

The Charlatans UK

Aural Reports

Top Ranking: DJ Gregory-G

Good Vibrations

DJ Drezs not-very-stoned soul picnic

The Harder They Come

Wonderful World, Beautiful Jimmy Cliff

Stirring It Up

Bob Marley lives forever

Tuning in, turning on

Surf and Destroy

Jr. Gong Show

Can Damian Marley rescue reggae?

Hibbert Invented Reggae

Another boffo tale of neglected, embittered musicians!

Wander This World

Manu Chaos independent spirit

Let Them Breathe Free!

Breasts, Marley, girls who mad dog and the boys who love them

Righteous Riffage

Everybody loves Half Pint

That 70's Blow!

Washburn lost on coke

Shout for Freedom!

Reggae pioneer Jimmy Cliff captures worship

Liking My Big Mouth

My Big Mouth/Hyphen/The Good Kind
Club 369
Saturday, June 5

The Incomplete Guide to Roots Music