For this International Women’s Day, PAM has compiled a playlist in which African or Afro-descendant women are the central characters. It is meant as a tribute to women, their struggles, as well as their past and future victories.

New York-based Cairo DJ Yas Meen Selectress creates a groovy PAM Club that cleverly combines the sounds of the Arab world with sound system culture. Yas Meen grew up in Cairo surrounded by local commercial […]

Soul Jazz is reprinting a 2xLP compilation of Coxsone Dodd’s dub versions with Horace Andy, Johnny Osbourne and more for an 18th anniversary edition. A long out of print classic, Studio One Dub is being […]

The new year came in strong with a slew of hits from the many artists and genres that are making Kenya one of the most exciting music scenes in East Africa. 

Three years after her Rapture EP, the Grammy Award-winning Jamaican singer announces her album Gifted with new fast-paced visuals.  In reggae and dancehall sound systems, “pull up” is something you would hear when the MC […]

A few weeks after an EP1 that we still haven’t recovered from, Parisian artist Sylvere gives us a glimpse of what’s to come with his new single “Toys”, which alternates between massive dancehall and angry […]

The San Francisco-based producer has announced a killer dancehall project, released via London’s Club Yeke.  Kush Arora, also known as Only Now, has long carried the soundscape of dancehall close to his heart. Based in […]

A Danish-Ghanaian collaboration for a reggae-highlife throwback.  Written and recorded in a single session, “Smoke and Mirrors” is the result of a meeting between the Danish musicians of Total Hip Replacement and the Kwashibu Area […]