From new albums to reissues, here's the year's best in reggae. By Rob Kenner From a new live album from a late legend to new LPs from long-running reggae stalwarts, here are Rob Kenner‘s editorial ...

Hands are the primary tools of most DJs. So when Scott Damnit‘s stopped working, things looked grim. “After my surgeries, my hands were about as useful as chicken cutlets,” says Damnit, the founder of ...

IN Switzerland, young adults are flocking to concerts featuring vintage Jamaican artistes. On the heels of International Reggae Day, Swiss music historian/journalist and independent music producer ...

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 ...

Late one night after his wife and kids were asleep, Scott Aiges started strumming Tom Petty’s “Refugee” on guitar, but with a reggae lilt. A light bulb went off: Wouldn’t it be great for a band to ...

Scott Damnit: “After weeks of promotion, we arrived to find a horrible band already performing. The bar had double-booked the night, and we were pissed. We were told to go to the bar across the street ...

Reggae veteran Vivian Jones scored several hits during his music career and the pioneer of the genre was named Best Male ...

Producer and label operator Clement "Coxsone" Dodd, one of the great architects of reggae music, died of a heart attack yesterday (May 4) at his studio in Kingston, Jamaica. He was 72. By Billboard ...