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Nearly 32 years after his death, crowds are still packing concert venues to hear the music of Bob Marley. For Aston “Family Man” Barrett, bandleader and bassist for Bob Marley & The Wailers, the ...

The members of John Brown’s Body have taken to calling the band’s progressive reggae sound “Future Roots Music.” What does that mean? Well, on the nine-man band’s most recent record, 2013’s “Kings and ...

The dubstep producer Mala recorded sounds for his new album, Mala In Cuba, during a trip to Havana with the BBC DJ Gilles Peterson. About a decade ago, a duo named Digital Mystikz put out a series of ...

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 ...

It was 1973 in Berkeley when Roger Steffens, thumbing through Rolling Stone magazine, became aware of a percolating, distant island music movement called reggae. He sought the sound out in record bins ...

Performing in front of a sold-out crowd at the Troubadour on May 2, Los Angeles band Ozomatli delivered its usual, barely controlled party as the band jammed on stage with a female mariachi band and a ...

As you can judge by his answers below, DJ JahMek Selecta can be short and to the point. His music mixes, however, are anything but. Not that’s necessarily a bad thing, as JahMek’s supersized ...

This week, the veteran producer Rupert Parkes, a.k.a. Photek, releases his DJ-Kicks mix to American audiences. But listeners boning up on his “two swords technique” can put away the Seven Samurai DVD: ...

The star – real name Wildale Spencer – was one of jungle and drum ‘n’ bass’s most distinctive and central voices. Also known as Singing Fats, he was famous for his smooth vocals, with a background in ...

Robbie Shakespeare, the renowned reggae bassist who helped move the genre into new sonic territory and whose playing was heard on classics by Black Uhuru and Peter Tosh as well as albums by rock icons ...