The King of Soca is back with a brand-new album featuring several A-list collaborations. By Kyle Denis With Trinidad and Tobago’s 2025 Carnival set to kick off this weekend (March 1), Machel Montano ...

Public Service Announcement: Check on your Trininadian friends. Check on all of your Caribbean friends. They're not OK. Because for perhaps the first time in Caribbean history, that time of year has ...

Energy, bacchanal, lacooray and nostalgia. Voice’s C2K22 release “Out and Bad” is a moving piece of music that embodies all those key elements of the Carnival. The three-time International Soca ...

I still remember the sound of the truck horns, the signature fast-paced tempos and pumping bass. It was Labor Day in 1997, and “Big Truck” by Machel Montano and Xtatik was blasting through the ...

The first law of soca music, according to Machel Montano, is: "it's dancing time all the time." And in his Tiny Desk Concert, the "King of Soca" provides irrefutable evidence to support that statement ...

New York’s West Indian Day Parade has marked the city’s Labor Day weekend for decades, and this year, the festivities begin at 9 p.m. on a Wednesday night. “They say this is the last weekend of summer ...

Austin "SuperBlue" Lyons' overwhelming victory in this years' Road March placed him in the company of calypso/soca crme de la crme, smack in the middle of the Calypso King of the World and the Road ...