The 1972 movie “The Harder They Come,” which follows the journey of Ivan, who hopes to become a music star and soon finds himself on the run from police, is now a piece of theater. Assistant Managing ...

Hits You Didn't Know Sampled Reggae Classics - DancehallMag. Songs that sampled reggae are everywhere in popular music, yet listeners rarely trace those borrowed rhythms, vocals, and riddims back to ...

John Lennon was a fan of a classic reggae song. In addition, he said the song’s success represented how much listeners’ musical tastes had changed since the early 1960s. Notably, John felt that the ...

Any history of reggae going global must trace a path directly from Kingston to London. It’s this connection that photographer Alex Bartsch hopes to make clear in his forthcoming book, Covers: ...

For the last few years Alex Bartsch has been travelling around London searching for the locations of classic reggae album record covers that were made in the years 1967-87. Then positioning and ...

Think of Etana as reggae's Jill Scott: She's a Jamaican soul singer with a voice that's rich, robust and saturated in the right kind of buoyancy — sage but never preachy. Etana's sophomore album Free ...

Queens-based reggae independent VP Records has relaunched U.K. reggae label Blood and Fire, known primarily for its quality reissues of Jamaican recordings from the 1970s and '80s, many of which were… ...

Hip-Hop Classics Built on Reggae Samples - DancehallMag. Hip hop songs with reggae samples are far more common than casual listeners realise. Hip-hop has been borrowing from reggae since Jamaican-born ...

Counter Eurovision 79, though now largely forgotten, nevertheless left its mark in the form of a classic roots reggae album. The event was organised as an alternative to the arguably cheesy and ...

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Reggae music pioneer Bob Marley died at the too-young age of 36 in 1981 from melanoma. But his music lives forever in the hearts of music fans, if sales are an indication. His 1984 "Legend" best-of ...