The concept of the compilation Out of Many: 50 Years of Reggae Music is simple. 50 years ago, Jamaica won independence from the British-ruled West Indies Federation. Around that same time, popular ...

Clancy Eccles is a sadly overlooked giant of Jamaican music who is often credited with coining the term “reggae,” an adaptation of the Kingston slang for loose woman, “streggae.” Eccles was discovered ...

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

Songs of the summer should be crowned not in the giddiness of July but in the waning days of September, once the hot season has finished its business. A rearview perspective suggests that “Toast,” by ...

You could hear it on mainstream radio in 1978, courtesy of The Police, and if you're in Britain, you can hear it on the airwaves today, in the music of Birmingham-born MC Lady Leshurr: reggae's ...

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 ...

But this track is no “Party All the Time.” Unlike the smooth R&B-pop stylings of his previous three music releases (or the aforementioned 1985 dance-pop smash), “Red Light” is full-on, Bob ...