1980sThe 1980s signaled the birth of an additional musical era, and the slow demise of another. With the help of producer King Jammy and musicians Steely and Clevy, Dub made way for a faster, more ...

Late one night after his wife and kids were asleep, Scott Aiges started strumming Tom Petty’s “Refugee” on guitar, but with a reggae lilt. A light bulb went off: Wouldn’t it be great for a band to ...

Reading the Jamaica Gleaner this week, I fell upon an article announcing the fact that six of the 10 records in the Billboard Reggae chart are by non-Jamaicans. Nothing against Matisyahu, but given ...

It’s Sept. 25, 1985 at the Palace Theatre in downtown New Haven, Connecticut, and the buoyant staccato guitar rhythm, breezy sax and distinctly ’80s synth-pop has the crowd footloose. UB40, which has ...

In this essay, writer AJ Morris explores the cultural history of Jamaican music, from reggae to dancehall, and examines how the medium works in tandem with Jamaican film as acts of protest and ...

Max Romeo, the celebrated roots reggae vocalist whose political anthems soundtracked a period of upheaval in his native Jamaica, died on Friday, April 11, of complications relating to a heart ...

That fall at Tipitina’s, they opened for another New Wave reggae band, Talking Dreads. (Aiges had originally considered that same name for his band, before settling on a mash-up of a Jamaican pun and ...

It’s Sept. 25, 1985 at the Palace Theatre in downtown New Haven, Conn., and the buoyant staccato guitar rhythm, breezy sax and distinctly ’80s synth-pop has the crowd footloose. UB40, which has since ...