Instead of trapping yourself at a north coast resort, where the only Jamaicans are bar staff or security guards and the best music on offer is karaoke, head to Kingston to experience Jamaica at its ...

KINGSTON (Reuters) - The main event at fight night in Kingston, a popular boxing showcase, was hours away, but the crowd at the National Stadium's indoor arena, from the young and hip to the elderly, ...

The influence of Jamaican pop can be felt everywhere today, from Drake’s “Controlla” to Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” – but Jamaican practitioners of the form have had a hard time breaking through on ...

Over five years ago, while completing my master's in music and business at NYU, I did an academic project with Spotify. The point of the project was to answer the question “Is there a real reggae ...

It's Saturday night at Koko Cocktails in the Tenderloin, and Adam Tadesse is on the decks, spinning a bouncy late-'60s tune by Jamaican pioneer Prince Buster. It's a reggae cover version of American ...

"Reggae isn’t just for the beach. It's hard hitting lyrics, flows, patterns, beats, storytelling." Hailed as the front-runner of reggae's musics Roots' second coming (REVIVAL?), Protoje is Jamaica's ...

Jamaican reggae and dub singer Chronixx (real name Jamar McNaughton) is a passionate believer in the music that his home nation has produced and, more to the point, keeps on producing. The son of ...

For decades, reggae and other styles of Jamaican music have infiltrated popular music worldwide. It’s in the DNA of everything from hip hop to punk to electronic music to reggaeton to Afrobeats and ...

New Zealand reggae band Katchafire collaborate with Louis Baker on a new version of Who You With ahead of the Revival 2.0 Guest Edition album due in November 2026.

BiaDela, a Gospel Reggae and Dancehall minister, is stepping into the spotlight with what she describes as a bold declaration of faith, rhythm and revival, as she prepares to release a new single.

Before America met Bob Marley, reggae was merely "novelty music." Criticism in the U.S. focused on how it was "crude, cheap, not to be taken seriously on any level." It had no tune or any "good words ...