Afronesian Roots & Soul will Rise Up Reggae Vibez, a powerful one-night celebration of music, culture and community, at the ...

A virtual concert featuring reggae-soul band Burque Sol will stream on Nov. 13. The band consists of, from left, Charles Montoya, Phillip Baca, Pete Gabaldon, Crystalynn Maestas-Romero, Greg Hakeem, ...

FOR many years, Shanachie Records has been one of the world’s leading sources for indigenous and roots music. In terms of reggae, its catalogue includes revered recordings from the music’s golden age ...

A pair of reggae innovators will visit Drexel University this fall to share their experiences in the music industry with students in Westphal College of Media Arts & Design and to explore the trove of ...

People used to look at UB40 with suspicion. -After all, it’s a British band of mainly white guys playing reggae. And its biggest hits were covers of songs by massive pop artists, like Neil Diamond ...

Jelani ‘JB Wassifa’ Brown is continuing a sound system legacy that began more than half a century ago (Picture: Adam Dawson/Cap7ure/Getty/PA) Reggae is ‘a thing of the soul’ says Jelani ‘JB Wassifa’ ...

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If that doesn’t seem like a logical pairing to you, you’re hardly to be blamed, but since the mid-1960s musicians from Jamaica and other West Indian nations carved out a scene for themselves in ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Jesse Wagner grew up in a musical family. Both his father and uncle played in soul bands during ...

You were either a roots man or a ‘soul boy’ in Jamaica during the 1970s. Rasta and reggae appealed to the former while the latter were drawn to American R&B music. That’s the scene Russell Thompkins ...