Who but Upstate Reggae could assemble such a long list of top-notch local musicians in one place to benefit the birthplace of its namesake music genre? Featuring performances by John Sebastian, Cindy ...

LA punks The Last Gang formed back in the 2000s (led by Brenna Red, who also sang in Fiction Reform and drummed in Civet), but they really started to break out after signing to Fat Wreck Chords and ...

As the excitement builds for the upcoming Grammy Awards, the spotlight shines brightly on the Best Reggae Album category, ...

In Jamaican music’s immediate family, there are reggae, dancehall, ska, rocksteady, dub and mento and Nyabinghi. Close cousins? That would be hip-hop, reggaeton, EDM and Afrobeats. Learn about all the ...

At first look, jazz seems to have little use for reggae. After all, isn't the essence of jazz its flights of improvisatory fancy, while reggae's trademark is that resolute, lockdown rhythm? But a ...

Mando McPickin will be one of the artists featured at this year’s Love Conquers All Reggae Fest, coming Friday to the Greater Lima Region Park Amphitheater. Photo courtesy of mandomcpickin.com LIMA — ...

Although Santa Cruz’ The Expendables play an energetic hybrid of rock, ska and reggae. Its members themselves take pride in being way laid back, and that’s what led to the band’s most recent offering: ...

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 ...

When he arrived here from Jamaica in 1987 at age 19, Lynval Jackson knew so little about Minnesota he thought it would "be just a little colder" than back home. He made the move in January, by the way ...

Alongside everything ugly that happened since George Floyd died in police custody last May in Minneapolis, longtime music collaborators and renowned sidemen Ryan "Rion" Liestman and Michael Bland said ...

On April 22, 1978 30,000 people filled Kingston’s National Stadium to see the One Love Peace concert. On the bill was singer Dennis Brown, pop-reggae sensation Inner Circle, the vocal trio The Mighty ...