Midnight Raver

Midnight Raver

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Available in	English
Owner	10,000 Chariots LLC
Created by	Jah Raver, Roger Steffens
Editors	Jah Raver , Doug Wendt , Joseph Jurgensen , Glen Lockley , Peter Van Arnhem , Fred reGGaeLover
Website	midnightraverblog.com
Launched	19 October 2011
Current status	active

Midnight Raver is a website dedicated solely to the promotion and preservation of roots reggae, culture, and dub. Contributors include authors and journalists, historians, record producers, broadcasters, lecturers, archivists, collectors and publishers.

Midnight Raver is an online resource for reggae news, historical perspective, and commentary and has been featured and sourced in The Guardian,Buzzfeed,Jamaica Observer,Billboard Magazine,Investors Business Daily, JamaicansMusic,PeterTosh.com,BobMarley.com,Pitchfork and other websites and publications of note. The website is also sourced in author Paul Sullivan's book ReMixology: Tracing the Dub Diaspora (2013).

Along with feature articles, live performance audio and video, and vintage press archives, Midnight Raver also features interviews with reggae artists like Ziggy Marley, Bunny Wailer, Sly Dunbar, Robbie Shakespeare, Luciano, Adrian Sherwood, Bob Andy, Aston Barrett, Don Carlos, Flabba Holt, David Hinds of Steel Pulse plus many more.

In addition, Midnight Raver hosts exclusive streaming content from a variety of contributors including radio broadcasters Doug "Midnight Dread" Wendt and Dermot Hussey. Midnight Raver hosts the Midnight Dread Special, a weekly podcast featuring the original broadcasts of the Midnight Dread Radio Show which aired from 1979 to 1985 on KTIM and KQAK FM in San Rafael, California. Midnight Dread, 2015 recipient of the Rex Foundation's Ralph J. Gleason Award, hosted the very first reggae radio show in the US in 1974 with THE REGGAE EXPLOSION on KTIM San Rafael. Midnight Raver also hosts The Riff, the weekly podcast of Musgrave Award-winning Jamaican broadcaster/producer and current Sirius/XM radio host Dermot Hussey. The Riff, produced by Dermot Hussey, features the latest in reggae, world, and jazz with interviews and commentary from artists and industry. The Riff also airs weekly on NewsTalk 93 FM in Jamaica.