Sixteen months after it debuted in the tri-state area, The Roadblock Radio Island Mix, a weekly show highlighting Caribbean ...

Soca music fans subsist in a feast-or-famine world. Feasts come during Carnival — especially Trinidad Carnival, king of them all — when the exuberant, dance-driven tunes are released faster than soca ...

Every year, social media pages are splashed with colorful images of feathers, powder and bacchanal–which could only mean one thing: Carnival has arrived. I’ve traveled to over eight Caribbean ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Caribbean marks the birthplace of tons of cultural fixtures that are widely enjoyed around the world, and one of its most ...

At 17, Riaz Bacchus was DJing on pirate radio stations in London when he stumbled on a genre of music that seemed to perfectly express his heritage. “It was Bollywood and soca mashed together – both ...

New York-based soca artiste Yankey Boy (Kevon Heath) has issued a musical call to action: “Only Soca” should be played at Caribbean carnival parades in the diaspora. The catchy C’donia-produced track, ...