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 ...

Billboard reflects on the third year of Protoje's Lost In Time reggae music festival in Jamaica, featuring sets by Chronixx, Lila Ike and more.

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 ...

After earning a rare recognition from the United Nations, we look at this genre whose fluid, lilting grooves and pulsating rhythms thrived on the fringes of global showbiz trends for five decades.

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 ...

The Kingston-born singer is visiting iconic venues on both coasts. Get all the details.

Ghanaian reggae and dancehall artiste TopGyal Renner is making waves on the continental stage as part of the groundbreaking “Selecta Gimme Dat Riddim” project, the first-ever all-African women reggae ...

For the last two months or so, the music of The Grateful Dead has been played all over the country since Bob Weir died on Jan. 10.

In the Bronx earlier this month, there was a celebration of reggae music and its impact on other cultures. “The Caribbean contribution to this city and to the United States and to the world is amazing ...

In this essay, writer AJ Morris explores the cultural history of Jamaican music, from reggae to dancehall, and examines how the medium works in tandem with Jamaican film as acts of protest and ...

A new reissue marks the 40th anniversary of “Under Me Sleng Teng,” considered one of dancehall’s first digital songs and, with over 500 versions, among the most recycled. By Patricia Meschino In 1984, ...

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 — ...