In this day and age of iPad recording apps, Spotify, CD Baby and Bandcamp, almost anyone can put out a record. This revolution has undoubtedly put major record labels on the defensive. But for artists and music fans, it’s best thing that ever happened.

Gone are the days when artists are right off the bat deemed precious when they get their songs pressed into vinyl or CD.
Gone are the days when bands that glitter are only those with major label contracts.
Gone are the days when only artists that appear on TV or get heard on radio matter.

The old world order is dead. The middleman is extinct. Music is free.

Now the best music comes from those who are great and not those who are popular.

Take for instance, the Jersey City-based reggae group, Kiwi. They are one of the most important groups in the scene whose members are seasoned musicians who know exactly what they want and how to to get it. And the result is music that is much much better and meaningful than what’s on the radio. And the beauty of the whole thing is that we have access to their amazing stuff. We can buy it online, stream on Spotify, even get the CDs straight from the working hands of the band members themselves – all without the multi-million marketing arms of record companies.

The band just released their full-length album entitled On The Move and are set to launch it with a show at Joe’s pub on February 21. It’s an amazing album. Production is clean and the musicianship is precise. But more importantly, it shatters the shallow notion that reggae is nothing but dreadlocks and yellow-green bongs. In fact, it reaffirms the truth that reggae is music that gives the human heart a reason to beat and the soul a way to soar.

Among the best tracks in Kiwi’s On The Move record are: Give A Little, Sun Never Set, Change, Pema, Lady Lady and the instrumental track Dead Man.