KINGSTON, Jamaica — Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport, Olivia Grange, has described the new Reggae Month App as a “game changer as the government intensifies efforts to promote ...
Every year since 1926, Black History Month has been honored in February — but did you know that since 2008, February has also been officially designated Reggae Month in Jamaica? The history and ...
Listen to 10 new must-hear reggae, dancehall and soca songs by V'ghn, Jesse Royal and Mr. Vegas. By Kyle Denis Although summer technically lasts until mid-September, the Caribbean’s biggest stars came ...
Bermuda’s preeminent reggae artist Collie Buddz has made yet another song available for free download today [Dec 24]. You can listen to “Start It Up” (Remix ...
Jamaica is reggae HQ. But around the world, the genre has spread — and its sound has mixed with other genres and fresh voices. In this week's Here & Now DJ Session, host Jeremy Hobson speaks with ...
Garth Dennis, the Jamaican music legend credited among the architects of “electro reggae,” a fusion of reggae and electronic music conveyed by his world-renowned band Black Uhuru, has died. He was 72.
As Jamaican immigrants made their way to Canada in the 1960s and '70s, they brought their culture with them, starting radio stations, record labels and concert series. A fledgling reggae movement ...
If you like your reggae shaken up with ska, punk, funk and groove, then Sublime is the band for you. The first time I heard Sublime, the band had already broken up and its talented lead singer, ...
It’s a Sunday afternoon at West End Johnnies in downtown Boston. A band is squeezed onto a little stage beneath a flat screen TV. Lead singer Errol Strength croons Bob Marley's "Is This Love" as he ...