If contemporary reggae with a forthright social conscience has a chance of impacting mainstream radio, SOJA is likely the band to accomplish that feat. By Patricia Meschino “I wanted to be Bob Marley ...

Jamaican reggae group Raging Fyah eyes America as it signs a multi-album deal with VP Records. By Patricia Meschino Six years ago the Jamaican reggae group Raging Fyah were asked to appear as the ...

John Brown’s Body’s sound is not something the band ever really talked about or tried to put into words. The American reggae group has a modern style all its own, which is something drummer and ...

Big Mountain went on a long hiatus, nearly 10 years. And it paid off. The reggae-rock band has returned, revitalized. Founding member Joaquin “Quino” McWhinney spent a decade teaching. He learned that ...

Alborosie has managed to shoot the precarious gap between the traditional Jamaican reggae of Burning Spear and Black Uhuru and the modern, Americanized version of artists like Stick Figure and SOJA, ...

Jamaican reggae music has an unlikely yet passionate ambassador—a white American businessman of a certain age who is investing big energy and even bigger money to spread the gospel of reggae and lure ...

Legendary reggae artist Shaggy, after an impressive 30-year journey, remains untouched by monotony, claiming it's an allergy to him. He has skillfully shaped a dynamic '2026 remix' of his beloved musi ...

Reggae music pioneer Bob Marley died at the too-young age of 36 in 1981 from melanoma. But his music lives forever in the hearts of music fans, if sales are an indication. His 1984 "Legend" best-of ...

“It’s with profound sadness that I share that my husband, Jimmy Cliff, has crossed over due to a seizure followed by pneumonia,” the message begins. “I am thankful for his family, friends, fellow ...