Pressure Cooker is Boston’s progressive roots reggae band. The group was founded in 1997 with a shared love of Jamaican music of the sixties and seventies era. Using this inspiration as a guide, Pressure Cooker crafted its own flavor of new American reggae music, thoughtfully written and powerfully delivered through a horn-infused, nine piece supergroup.
Pressure Cooker has performed live for nearly a decade, and independently recorded five full llength releases. Fronted by lead singer Craig Akira Fujita and backed by a core of talented Boston-area musicians, the band has thrilled audiences at clubs & festivals spanning from New England to Chicago. Over the years, Pressure Cooker has played in support of top artists of reggae music including Burning Spear, Toots & the Maytals, Prince Buster, Derrick Morgan, The Wailers, The Skatalites, Culture, Eek-A-Mouse, Julian Marley & Sister Carol.