Soca music is not for the faint at heart. The Trinidadian genre is calypso's faster, raunchier, studio-driven wayward child; the word comes from "soul of calypso," and the genre was inaugurated in the ...

AFTER almost 12 weeks of palancing, the 2011 carnival season culminates this weekend with a heady roster of activities leading up to Sunday’s grand road march through the streets of the Corporate Area ...

Last Wednesday Tristar Media group held the launch of their All-Island Carnival at the Devonshire, Devon House. The launch, saw sponsors and many soca lovers coming out to support what will be the ...

Taking the words of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar as gospel, chutney artistes are already excited over the 2011 Chutney Soca Monarch competition where they may be competing for a $2M first ...

Hip-hop isn't the only cultural movement celebrating its golden anniversary this year; soca, the up-tempo, propulsive descendant of calypso created in Trinidad and embraced across the Caribbean ...