Pop culture can be as forbidding as it is inviting, particularly in areas that invite geeky obsession: The more devotion a genre, series, or subculture inspires, the easier it is for the uninitiated ...
KINGSTON (Reuters) - The main event at fight night in Kingston, a popular boxing showcase, was hours away, but the crowd at the National Stadium's indoor arena, from the young and hip to the elderly, ...
Britain's Blood and Fire label -- known for its reissues of classic '70s roots music -- has rowed back into the reggae fray with "Fisherman Style" (credited to The Congos & Friends), a disc of newly ...
The Levitate festival, happening in Marshfield this weekend, annually presents two heady days of funk, roots, R&B and jam-band music. Today’s co-headliner, Rebelution, plays a little of all the above ...
It’s rare that some of the biggest and most influential artists in Jamaican roots reggae would appear in Sacramento in a single month – but that’s currently the case as Israel Vibration, The Roots ...
Sunday night,Burning Spear, the recently reunited Wailing Souls and Sly and Robbie, showed Hollywood showed the range of emotions and sounds that drew rock fans to roots reggae in the '70s and '80s.
orgasmic bass drops and an undeniable blissful vibe. Jamaica’s pride and joy is arguably the most universal music in the world. Its followers are cross-continental; from Europe to South America to ...
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Cedric Brooks, a Jamaican saxophone player and influential roots reggae musician, has died. He was 70. One of his sisters, Paulette Keise, said he died Friday of cardiac arrest at ...