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 ...

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 ...

Shot in Jamaica, Skip Marley's video for “In Our Sight” reinforced the song’s message of collective strength. The track is inspired by classic reggae riddims, all of which connect Skip’s sound to ...

The 1972 movie “The Harder They Come,” which follows the journey of Ivan, who hopes to become a music star and soon finds himself on the run from police, is now a piece of theater. Assistant Managing ...

Bongo Boy Music/Madacy Label Group will on May 15 release "Reggae Rocks - The Tide Is High," the first of a planned six-disc compilation series of reggae artists covering classic rock and pop songs… ...

Simply put, reggae as a global phenomenon begins with The Harder They Come. Before most people outside Jamaica could tell you who Bob Marley was, Cliff put the world on notice that something explosive ...

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 ...

Reggae music pioneer Bob Marley died at the too-young age of 36 in 1981 from melanoma. But his music lives forever in the hearts of music fans, if sales are an indication. His 1984 "Legend" best-of ...

Queens-based reggae independent VP Records has relaunched U.K. reggae label Blood and Fire, known primarily for its quality reissues of Jamaican recordings from the 1970s and '80s, many of which were… ...

When Jimmy Cliff and Tim Armstrong teamed up, it continued a decades-long relationship between reggae and punk rock ...