The post Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock Is a Reggae-Filled Celebration of Black Joy: NYFF Review appeared first on Consequence of Sound. The Pitch: In London’s West Indian community in 1980, a house ...

While most of Chapel Hill was abuzz with excitement for the UNC vs. Duke game, local reggae-lovers gathered in Cat's Cradle — but certainly not for basketball. On Saturday, the lively, tucked away ...

This weekend, the One Love festival hits the Queen Mary in Long Beach, kicking off the three-day celebration of reggae rock. Since its inaugural event, Goldenvoice has turned One Love Cali Reggae Fest ...

For decades, reggae and other styles of Jamaican music have infiltrated popular music worldwide. It’s in the DNA of everything from hip hop to punk to electronic music to reggaeton to Afrobeats and ...

After last year’s hiatus, Best of the Best Music Fest is back for its 15th edition. For one year only, the event was moved from its usual date in May back to Sunday, October 10, at Bayfront Park.

Beres Hammond is a lover and a fighter. The influential reggae musician's repertoire is split between playful songs about men putting on the charm to woo women, and the serious business of standing up ...

The percussive rhythms of reggae and dancehall music can make anyone start moving toward the dance floor. Los Angeles has a small, yet passionate community of music lovers who cannot resist a night ...

The Westchester Reggae Festival returns on June 1 after a one-year absence. Featuring Etana, Leroy Sibbles, Yellowman and Queen Ifrica, it takes place at the Westchester County Center in White Plains, ...

*“It formed itself,” said multi-platinum selling Estelle about her fifth studio album, “Lover’s Rock” (Established 1980, Inc./VP Records) to be released in September. “It just happened to be all ...

Steve McQueen’s new “Small Axe” anthology includes a film that centers on an offshoot of reggae that represented big shifts in the music, and in Black British culture. By Jeremy Gordon The lovesick ...

“Don’t forget, in those days, people used to work for the weekend,” Steve McQueen says of the era he depicts in Lovers Rock. “With this racism and oppression people had to deal with in the week — ...