They don’t have joints sticking out of their mouths nor do they have long braided Rastafarian hair—they’re just two good Iranian Jewish boys playing Reggae music. Their bandâ s name has nothing to do ...

A reggae sound system event is set to take place to raise funds for people still affected by Hurricane Melissa. The category ...

Berlin is a city known for its electronic music and club scene. But not everyone knows that many of the tricks used in today's club mixes, such as bass cut switches, echo and delay effects, and ...

As one of the most sought-after disc jockeys on the contemporary Reggae and Dancehall scene, ZJ Sparks has long stood as an ambassador of Reggae music, and was honored by TIDAL’s outreach to ...

Walk through any mall, and you’ll see stores filled with racks of clothes in the red, green and gold of Jamaica. Stroll through any college campus, and you may hear the sounds of Bob Marley’s “Legend” ...

61 years ago, a man named Duke Vin stowed away on a boat from Kingston to London. In Jamaica, he’d been a selector, spinning records on a prominent reggae sound system—a truck loaded with a generator, ...

As if on cue, the audience of 21,000 began to sing along word for word, note for note. But it wasn't Harper's song they knew by heart. It was that of Marley, who remains a deity in the world of reggae ...

For a couple of years now, the Deschutes County Fair & Expo Center in Redmond has hosted large-scale festivals focused on country music and electronic music. Now it’s reggae’s turn. The inaugural ...

From Bob Marley tributes to dancehall’s finest, the Welcome to Jamrock Reggae Cruise brings Jamaica’s signature sounds to the water. A favorite essay collection of mine gets its title from a chapter ...

It's Saturday night at Koko Cocktails in the Tenderloin, and Adam Tadesse is on the decks, spinning a bouncy late-'60s tune by Jamaican pioneer Prince Buster. It's a reggae cover version of American ...

Pop culture can be as forbidding as it is inviting, particularly in areas that invite geeky obsession: The more devotion a genre, series, or subculture inspires, the easier it is for the uninitiated ...

Not a lot of reggae sounds like Mexican music. However, Don Henley connected the two genres when he heard an early version of The Eagles’ “Hotel California” and called it “Mexican Reggae.” Here’s a ...