top of page
All News


From Crop over to the World: Spotlighting the barbados’ sound and community
At the Heart of Crop Over: Culture, Community and the Sound of Barbados There are festivals. And then there is Crop Over. Every summer in Barbados, the island shifts into a new rhythm. Drums, basslines and voices ripple across the streets. Colour fills the roads. Families, elders, children, artists, visitors and returnees from across the diaspora all move in the same direction. Toward a celebration that is as much about memory as it is about music. Crop Over Barbados began in
Parlay Records
3 min read


Brumtroit Sounds: A New Wave of Music Born from Birmingham’s Streets
Birmingham has always been a city of sounds and steel. Home to the car-making industry, it forged not only engines but also entire...
Parlay Records
3 min read
bottom of page