Blame it on the sugar-spiked funnel cakes — or the fact that Memorial Day arrived in Seattle with clear skies. Whatever it was, the thousands who turned up for the last day of the Northwest Folklife ...

If you were on the inside of Miami’s hot hip hop scene over the last 15 years, you probably already know Abebe Lewis. He stages nightclub events and produces music festivals throughout South Florida, ...

The fusion of hip-hop music and reggae has been brewing for decades, becoming more recognizable in recent years with well-received collaborations from artists on both sides of the genres. So much, ...

Tune in to new Hispanic urban radio stations around the country and you're likely to hear "reggaeton," the big news in Latin music. The mixture of Spanish-language reggae and hip-hop was born in the ...

From Jamaica's inner cities to MTV, dance-hall music, once relegated to ethnic and specialized markets, has gained worldwide popularity in the past decade. Thanks to his hit single "Gimme the Light" ...

BRITISH rapper Jethro “Alonestar” Sheeran has a long love affair with reggae music and that passion led to his involvement in multiple compilation albums. The former model/actor has songs on the ...

While Atlanta was still in its funk era in the 1970s, reggae and dancehall music began to gain popularity in New York, where they would be infused with round-the-way rap to form hip-hop. For example, ...