KINGSTON (Reuters) -Garth Dennis, a musician who helped pioneer an electronic and echo-driven style of reggae in the 1980s as a leader of the band Black Uhuru, has died, Jamaica's culture ministry ...

Nineteen categories will be contested at the second Reggae North Music Awards (RNMA) which takes place on September 28 at ...

Fade Away, another song from Ghetto Reggae, recalls the 1980s when hard-core toasters like Josey Wales, Charlie Chaplin and ...

UB40 featuring Ali Campbell are the first headliners announced for an outdoor concert series celebrating its 25th anniversary ...

One of five anthology films directed by Steve McQueen about Black British life in the '60s through '80s, it's a time-machine reverie that lets the music do the talking. In the most transporting scene ...

“Reggae is only what you hear and think is reggae,” Peter Tosh pronounces at the beginning of Heartland Reggae (1980)—and a lot of what sounds like just that is playing at BAMcinématek during the long ...

The reggae community is mourning the loss of an icon. Calvin George Scott — better known as Cocoa Tea” — has died at the age of 65. The Jamaica Gleaner reports how the singer’s wife, Malvia Scott, ...

Terence Wilson — who went by the stage name Astro, performed with UB40 until 2013, when he formed a breakaway band. Terrence Wilson -- who went by the stage name ...

Garth Dennis, the Jamaican music legend credited among the architects of “electro reggae,” a fusion of reggae and electronic music conveyed by his world-renowned band Black Uhuru, has died. He was 72.

In the most transporting scene of Steve McQueen’s “Lovers Rock,” we’re at a London house party that has just hit its smoky seductive dirty-dancing groove. It’s 1980, and most of the revelers have West ...