Flip through the local radio channels and it won’t be long until you hear a reggae song. The characteristic one drop drumming and offbeat-emphasized rhythm dominates popular music in the islands, and ...

A pair of reggae innovators will visit Drexel University this fall to share their experiences in the music industry with students in Westphal College of Media Arts & Design and to explore the trove of ...

ASPEN ” Jamaica isn’t the only island where reggae rules. On the islands of Hawaii, too, reggae is a force ” so much so that there is a local hybrid, Jawaiian, a cross between Jamaica’s most popular ...

Downtown Topeka will get laid back Saturday when it hosts the Sunshine Reggae Roots Festival headlined by the city’s own contribution to the genre, Soul Rebel & The Beast. “We haven’t played Topeka in ...

Hawaiian island reggae meets country soul when Maoli brings his Island Vibe tour to Australia in March 2026. Following a sold ...

“I had no idea I was going to get into music,” says reggae/soul singer J Boog. “I thought I was going to work at the oil refinery my whole life, drinking every damn weekend, living check to check, ...

In 2011, Jamaican writer and activist Dutty Bookman coined the phrase “reggae revival” to describe artists like Protoje, Chronixx, Jah9, Kabaka Pyramid, Jesse Royal, and others who tended to favor ...

Frederick “Toots” Hibbert, frontman of the pioneering reggae outfit Toots and the Maytals and one of the greatest voices in popular music, died Friday evening at the age of 77. “It is with the ...

In the cradle of country music, Aashid Himons stood out like a Serengeti lion in a Middle Tennessee cow pasture. Most people knew him as the dreadlocked Rasta man who fronted the pioneering and wildly ...

ROCHESTER - For two consecutive nights - October 17 and 18 - the stage at The Governor's Inn will shake, rattle and roll with two full scale concerts of different genres, both with a lot of soul and ...