Whatever mood you're in, contemporary reggae has a tune for you. That's because Jamaican music is a study in contrasts: Songs veer from sacred to profane, sexy to spiritual, blisteringly aggressive to ...

WEBVTT AND YOU’VE GOT QUITE THE MUSIC MASH-UP. ♪ STEP IN ON A MONDAY NIGHT AND YOU MIGHT THINK YOU ARE IN BELFAST. THE DAVID SQUARE PUB HOLDS A JAM SESSION THAT IS SURE TO GET YOUR TOES TAPPING. WE ...

Former Maui Radio DJ Guy Amico (from left), Marty Dread and former Q103 DJ Shaggy Jenkins are starting a new reggae radio station for world broadcast. Courtesy photo The world has a new online reggae ...

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 ...

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 ...

Listen to 10 new must-hear reggae, dancehall and soca songs by A!MS, Ding Dong and Collie Buddz. By Kyle Denis After several false starts, summer finally seems to have settled in. That means music ...

Dolly Parton is one of the most recognizable artists on the planet, and her influence spans well beyond country music. Singers in all genres have covered her work, and now one of her hit songs is ...

Few genres have had such an international impact, while remaining so geographically specific, as reggae. The best reggae albums are Jamaican through and through, and though there are other small ...

In June 1964, a country music fan in Jamaica who regularly listened to Nashville’s 50,000-watt radio station WSM sent a letter to the editor of Billboard, who proclaimed it the first such ...