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 ...
Fifty years ago, the world was introduced to a new sound, a sound from Jamaica. Britain would be the first of the international markets to embrace this sound, thanks to the work of Trojan Records, a ...
In 2016, Zak Starkey — musician and son of Ringo Starr — and his Sshh bandmate Sharna “Sshh” Liguz teamed with Eddie Vedder and a slew of reggae legends, including Wailers drummer Carlton “Santa Davis ...
Squeezing a decade of reggae music, seven key producers of the 60s, on to a single 20-track CD is a foolhardy, some would say impossible, task. Remarkably, Melanin People have done it by ...