In 2011, Jamaican writer and activist Dutty Bookman coined the phrase “reggae revival” to describe artists like Protoje, Chronixx, Jah9, Kabaka Pyramid, Jesse Royal, and others who tended to favor ...

The Wailing Souls are part of the small surviving group of reggae and roots originators still musically active today. The legendary group dates back to the late 1960s. The Wailing Souls members got ...

Reflecting on International Reggae Day, the writer explores how reggae shaped his political awakening and personal identity, while arguing that its enduring messages of justice, unity and hope remain ...

Frederick “Toots” Hibbert, frontman of the pioneering reggae outfit Toots and the Maytals and one of the greatest voices in popular music, died Friday evening at the age of 77. “It is with the ...

For a small place, Jamaica exerts a big influence. It covers an area of less than 11 000km2, with fewer than three million inhabitants. But ask anyone with even a passing interest in music to name its ...

Jimmy Cliff, the Jamaican reggae star whose lead role in the 1972 cult-movie sensation “The Harder They Come” helped introduce the pulsating island dance beat to a global audience, has died. He was 81 ...

Toots Hibbert of Toots and the Maytals performs during the Coachella music festival in California in 2017. (Katie Stratton/Getty Images for Coachella) For music fans living in the San Francisco Bay ...

Ziggy Marley and the Wailing Souls: By now, surely, Ziggy Marley has stepped out of his dad’s shadow. Sure, he has the rare distinction of being the second most famous Marley and the second most ...