You're in for a pre-Thanksgiving treat. Yesterday, I posted on a 1964 Jamaican mini documentary on ska, the island's dominant dance music of the early 1960s. Today. I found a high-resolution print 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, rocksteady, and ska legend Jimmy Cliff has died at age 81 after a seizure followed by pneumonia. His wife Latifa Chambers shared the sad news on Instagram: It’s with profound sadness that I ...

Believe in the Hail Mary.

Joey Quiñones’ Inna Soul Steady Situation blends rocksteady, reggae, and sweet soul in a fresh solo statement from a Southern ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — One of the founders of a leading Jamaican reggae and rocksteady trio from the 1960s has died. A bandmate says Barry Llewellyn of the Heptones died Wednesday at age 64. Lead ...

International Reggae Day is celebrated on July 1 every year. Here’s how reggae was born in Jamaica, why the day was created and how the genre transformed global music.

The Roots of Reggae is a musical journey to Jamaica's Golden Age of music, Rocksteady. The film features the music and stories of the legendary singers and musicians of the Rocksteady era. They come ...

In this lush documentary, director Stascha Bader travels to Kingston, Jamaica, to study a late-'60s musical style known as rocksteady, a predecessor to the reggae sound that eventually evolved into ...

People Rocksteady; Sounds & Pressure; Silent River Runs Deep; Stop That Train; Freedom Street; Tougher Than Tough; You Don't Love Me (No No No); Love Me Today; Rivers Of Babylon; Shanty Town (007); ...