Released in April 1973, Catch A Fire catapulted Bob Marley and the Wailers to global stardom. The sub-hooks of bassist Aston ‘Family Man’ Barrett, together with his drumming brother Carly, played a ...

Island Records founder Chris Blackwell recounts his adventures in the music business in the new book The Islander. Among Blackwell's accomplishments was bringing reggae artists like Bob Marley ...

Reggae music and the island of Jamaica are inseparable, right? Lately, a crop of artists from places like Hawaii, California and Italy are proving that hit reggae can come from anywhere. In the ...

Joe Gibbs, 65, an influential reggae music producer who helped create the 1970s hit “Two Sevens Clash” for Culture, died Feb. 20 of a heart attack in Jamaica, according to news reports. Born Joel ...

Jason Mraz’s current album, Look For the Good, found him achieving his dream of recording a reggae record where he could, “…sing over tasty grooves, reverberated snares and sticky echoed-out pockets.” ...

Simply put, reggae as a global phenomenon begins with The Harder They Come. Before most people outside Jamaica could tell you who Bob Marley was, Cliff put the world on notice that something explosive ...

Growing up in Southern England, Bob Bell fell in love with Jamaican music as soon as he bought his first recording, in 1963. As far as he was concerned, the explosion of musical creativity in that ...

Rihanna has insisted speculation her next album will be a reggae record is “way off.” Her statement comes as fans eagerly await her first album release since 2016, with the interview generating ...