Last summer the New York Times reported that Grammy-nominated reggae star Chronixx told a crowd during one of his electric performances: “This is the beautiful sound of reggae music from the island of ...
And so it was with the reggae edition (part of the Reggae Britannia season), which took a brisk 90-minute march from reggae's arrival in Britain from Jamaica in the Sixties to the point where it ...
"Reggae isn’t just for the beach. It's hard hitting lyrics, flows, patterns, beats, storytelling." Hailed as the front-runner of reggae's musics Roots' second coming (REVIVAL?), Protoje is Jamaica's ...
While much of the lore around Studio One has to do with its fabled releases during the 1960s, there's a lot to be said about what Coxsone Dodd and co were cooking up in Kingston during the 1970s too.
Flip through the local radio channels and it won’t be long until you hear a reggae song. The characteristic one drop drumming and offbeat-emphasized rhythm dominates popular music in the islands, and ...