Roots Archives Forum

greetings all. i have been trying to find a magazine that features roots and dub music. does anyone know of a regularly running mag that can be subscribed to in the states? ny info would be greatly appreciated. thanks and praise.

The Beat!It's been around since early 80's,or maybe late 70's!I bought lots of their magazines some 15 years ago,&,a few months back I checked out their web & they do have lots of back issues!!!Roger Steffens,very experianced reggae commentator,author & collector is responsible for most it!He does have a site thats:reggaesupersite.com

Riddim should be available stateside
but I heard say it will finish soon !!!!!!!
anyone know anything about that ?

Have not seen Riddim in book stores since the Stephen Marley cover 2 months ago. Focused on all aspects of reggae music. Good light read on the train. Nothing too indepth but still a heap better than what else is in the magazine racks

As far as I know Riddim's UK/English version will continue, but later this year. Its funny, why use a name which has aleady been used? Riddim was a magazine out of Chicago in the 1980s

The Beat, formerly Reggae & African Beat, has been around since about 1982, features more world beat than reggae now

There was one 'zine put out several years back out of the UK called Step Forward, long deleted now, mainly dub and new roots music

There's Natty Dread and Ragga out of France, but only in French of course

Small Axe is now a web 'zine, Reggae Quarterly ceased about 20 years ago out of Canada, both of them very nice fanzines

Boom Shacka Lacka was a great 'zine out of London, probably the greatest as far as revival articles and features on modern UK and JA roots goes

But other than that, its not much. Dub Missive, Reggae Report, NY Reggae Times, Gargamel, all of those never did much for me, fanzines compared to The Beat which is professional in all what they do, I'd say

There was Reggae Nucleus too, not too good, but respect to all of them for their efforts, it takes a lot to put together a 'zine, that's for sure

Very hard times for paper publications nowadays.

Many of the magazines I have worked for over many years are really struggling to make ends meet, or have have bombed.

Internet takin' over.

Look out for www.leggorockers.com - reggae-zine coming soon!

ITES.....Riddim is also a mag in Japan that has been going for about ten or more year.

True true, selecta...forgot about that one. I think there was a Japanese mag. called Reggae Magazine as well