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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shot in Jamaica, Skip Marley's video for “In Our Sight” reinforced the song’s message of collective strength. The track is ...

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 ...

The annual Ragga Muffins Festival hasn’t restored the “Bob Marley Day” that used to be part of its name, but for its 25th staging the reggae extravaganza has made a concerted move toward the classic ...

After his death aged 73, we look back at a selection of the hundreds of tracks the Sly and Robbie drummer had a hand in making ...

WOODBURY -- More than two decades have passed since the deaths of Bob Marley and Peter Tosh -- arguably the two most important figures in the rise of reggae music. However, demand for their music has ...

Roots reggae band The Expanders are always on the move. Following their third studio album, aptly titled Hustling Culture, the Los Angeles-based group recently released a second volume of reggae ...

Brinsley Forde as Blue in Franco Rosso’s Babylon (courtesy of Kino Lorber Repertory/Seventy-Seven) Jah! Rastafari! This chant, repeated like a mantra, is a cry of faith and defiance. In the film ...

Steve McQueen‘s Small Axe, a series of five films about the West Indian experience in the UK in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, is currently airing on Amazon/BBC. The second Small Axe film, Lovers Rock, just ...

Charlie Wild’s lifelong love affair with music began at just four years old, with thunderous Led Zeppelin riffs that rattled the speakers of his older brother’s ’72 Camaro. “My brother had this ’72 ...