TANYA STEPHENS -- Her new album, ''Gangsta Blues'' (VP), is full of witty reggae protest songs: one minute she's demanding social justice, the next minute she's demanding a lover who knows what he's ...

Built around the same musical foundation as Morgan’s release, the No Better Riddim embraces the rich Jamaican tradition of ...

We hope everyone is enjoying Labor Day 2018! Whether you have the day off or not, the most important thing is to recognize the hard work we all put in day in and day out at our respective 9 to 5 ...

A great reggae producer is a master of disguise: able to make listeners unaware that the 10 tunes they've just heard share a single beat. That's because the building block of dancehall and ...

Looking at the Casio Casiotone MT40, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was an unremarkable keyboard. You may even have owned one just like it. Launched in 1981, the cream machine came with 37 keys, 22 ...

!IN 1986, 10-year-old Maya Arulpragasam and her family fled the civil war in Sri Lanka and settled in England. She learned English about the time she discovered another language: hip-hop, the perfect ...

“Under Mi Sleng Teng,” by Jamaican singer Wayne Smith, is one of the milestones in the history of Jamaican popular music. Written by Smith and his friend Noel Davey, the pioneering dancehall classic ...

Although roots reggae had run its course by the time Garfield Cowan got interested in music production, he always admired the One Drop beat that made the genre famous during the 1970s. The One Drop ...

After several weeks of speculation, Teenage Engineering has officially unveiled two new products – the EP-40 Riddim sampler and EP-2350 Ting microphone – deeply inspired by reggae, dancehall and sound ...

Despite Reggae Month 2021 being kept on servers and streaming sites due to the global pandemic, Jamaica’s long and storied history continues on in film unabashedly. The country’s theme of “Come Ketch ...