The band currently dominating the Billboard Reggae Album Chart with three releases has a new record arriving in November. Its rise is supported by the independent Ineffable Music Group. LONG BEACH, CA ...

Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. On August 6 1962, Jamaica declared independence from colonial Britain. The new flag had a St Andrew’s cross designed in gold ...

Next time you turn on the reggae station, take a moment to appreciate that you’re now listening to a piece of “Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.” As Laura Snapes at the Guardian reports, on ...

The youngest son of music icon Bob Marley spoke exclusively to PEOPLE ahead of this year’s Jamrock Reggae Cruise, which he co ...

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 ...

Reggae music nowadays seems as ubiquitous to the beaches of Southeast Asia and dorm rooms of Boston as it does to its Jamaican homeland. Now the genre that evolved in the 1960s has been added to the ...

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 ...

Hip-hop has had a strong connection to reggae music since the days of DJ Kool Herc’s summer house parties in the early 1970s. Hip-hop’s foundation was built on elements of the Jamaican sound system ...

Ras Ajai’s moving thanksgiving service in St Andrew honoured the reggae singer and Bob Marley: One Love actor, whose memorial ...

Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Jamaica’s application to the committee mentioned a number of artists from Bob ...

THE streets of downtown Kingston are set to come alive with the sound of running shoes, reggae and international camaraderie as the Reggae Marathon, Half Marathon, 10K & 5K returns to Jamaica’s ...