I honestly couldn’t tell you how many reggae and dancehall mixtapes I listened to during my childhood years. The burned CDs—with their sometimes glitchy skips, boisterous sound effects between ...

After several false starts, summer finally seems to have settled in. That means music festivals, various carnival celebrations, and the search for a song of the summer are in full effect. “Vybz Kartel ...

"This is the first official mixtape project by both parties and lovers of reggae / dancehall music should be expecting more. The main idea behind this Uppaclass Fix tape Mix is to showcase our talent ...

For decades, reggae and other styles of Jamaican music have infiltrated popular music worldwide. It’s in the DNA of everything from hip hop to punk to electronic music to reggaeton to Afrobeats and ...

The percussive rhythms of reggae and dancehall music can make anyone start moving toward the dance floor. Los Angeles has a small, yet passionate community of music lovers who cannot resist a night ...

Reading the Jamaica Gleaner this week, I fell upon an article announcing the fact that six of the 10 records in the Billboard Reggae chart are by non-Jamaicans. Nothing against Matisyahu, but given ...

Reggae has been part of Jamaica’s ‘starting gun’, given voice to Rastafarianism and fired up crowds from Trench Town to Yokohama. Yet when Earl Gateshead, one of the pioneers of the UK scene, found ...

You know what you need in your life? More mixtapes with 96 songs on them. Not 96 Papoose freestyles but 96 dancehall classics and rareties blended like Appleton, pineapple and coconut milk by extended ...