Jamaican music is suddenly the ubiquitous chaser to this summer's nasty shot of a heatwave. Rising star Cham's "Ghetto Story" single was a monster hit in Jamaica; an album of the same name was ...

The Expanders take pains to duplicate the sounds of classic Jamaican music using old tube guitar amps, vintage organs, and Leslie speakers, but there’s some irony in doing so, according to rhythm ...

Brinsley Forde as Blue in Franco Rosso’s Babylon (courtesy of Kino Lorber Repertory/Seventy-Seven) Jah! Rastafari! This chant, repeated like a mantra, is a cry of faith and defiance. In the film ...

No one does music fandom quite like the British. They immerse themselves in their favorite music, whatever its place of origin. They create new subcultures around it, designating new subgenres the ...

February marks National Reggae Month — a time to celebrate the rich anthology of Jamaican music and honor the birthdays of late icons Dennis Brown and Bob Marley. The festival will include dancers ...

WASHINGTON — Two-time Grammy Award-winning reggae drummer Sly Dunbar, who fueled countless tracks from Bob Marley to Bob Dylan and was one-half of the influential reggae rhythm section Sly & Robbie, ...

John Lennon was a fan of a classic reggae song. In addition, he said the song’s success represented how much listeners’ musical tastes had changed since the early 1960s. Notably, John felt that the ...

GALLOWAY – Sons of Mystro, a musical duo who play more than 10 different genres of popular music using violin instead of voice, will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 11 at the Stockton ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “As one half of Sly & Robbie, Sly helped shape the sound of reggae and Jamaican music for generations,” read a statement from his ...

Two-time Grammy Award-winning reggae drummer Sly Dunbar, who fueled countless tracks from Bob Marley to Bob Dylan and was one-half of the influential reggae rhythm section Sly & Robbie, has died. He ...