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**Heartbeat Records** has launched a new web site and podcast called the Heartbeat Reggae Podcast. The web site, [HeartbeatReggaePodcast.com](http://www.heartbeatreggaepodcast.com/), is the official home for the podcast and is the platform on which new episodes are announced. You can listen and download each new program, as well as dig through the archives of past episodes. The Heartbeat Reggae Podcast delivers some of the finest Jamaican music ever recorded, and keeps you updated on Heartbeat's activities. The podcast is hosted by Heartbeat's own Joshua B, who has 10 years of radio experience in Boston, Massachusetts.

We encourage you to subscribe to the podcast so that you can be made aware of each new episode. Subscription options are available through a Subscribe link at the site. Subscription options include a variety of web-based podcatchers, iTunes, and e-mail delivery. We look forward to your comments about each show.

Since our launch in 1981, Heartbeat Records has become a benchmark of quality in reggae, widely respected for releasing the best in Jamaican popular music. Heartbeat's catalog is the nearest to a definitive canon of Jamaican popular music, one that is unmatched in its depth and scope.

*source : [heartbeatreggae.com](http://www.heartbeatreggae.com/)*

I don't think they exist anymore. Clicking on the link you can see the message the domain name is up for sale.. R.I.P. The Heartbeat Reggae Podcast.

are there any other good reggae podcasts available on itunes?

Why bother looking on iTunes? Plenty of great reggae podcasts for free on Podomatic (or my own podcast, for that matter). Check this thread:

http://www.roots-archives.com/forum/read.php?3,89539

Thanks for the link Mick! I use iTunes for all my podcasts, because it updates automatically. I still have all episodes of Radio Scratch there

I'll go through this list! thanks again!

I set up my podcast so that you should be able to subscribe in iTunes. However, iTunes won't let me get officially listed due to copyright reasons.

Mick Sleeper wrote:I set up my podcast so that you should be able to subscribe in iTunes. However, iTunes won't let me get officially listed due to copyright reasons.

I'd be curious to know more about this copyright issue they raise. I mean a podcast is like a radio show, right? And arent radio stations allowed to use any tune? If you cared to elaborate, I'd appreciate it, thanks.

iTunes doesn't give you any explanation. You submit your URL and RSS feed, and then wait a few days. If you get rejected, you're not told why, just a list of possible reasons why you *might* have been rejected. I double-checked my code, everything was correct, so I'm assuming that I was denied a listing due to copyright issues. However, I have it set up so that people can still subscribe in iTunes, I'm just not on their official listing.