From new albums to reissues, here's the year's best in reggae. By Rob Kenner From a new live album from a late legend to new LPs from long-running reggae stalwarts, here are Rob Kenner‘s editorial ...

Hands are the primary tools of most DJs. So when Scott Damnit‘s stopped working, things looked grim. “After my surgeries, my hands were about as useful as chicken cutlets,” says Damnit, the founder of ...

It's Saturday night at Koko Cocktails in the Tenderloin, and Adam Tadesse is on the decks, spinning a bouncy late-'60s tune by Jamaican pioneer Prince Buster. It's a reggae cover version of American ...

Scott Damnit: “After weeks of promotion, we arrived to find a horrible band already performing. The bar had double-booked the night, and we were pissed. We were told to go to the bar across the street ...

IN Switzerland, young adults are flocking to concerts featuring vintage Jamaican artistes. On the heels of International Reggae Day, Swiss music historian/journalist and independent music producer ...

Late one night after his wife and kids were asleep, Scott Aiges started strumming Tom Petty’s “Refugee” on guitar, but with a reggae lilt. A light bulb went off: Wouldn’t it be great for a band to ...

Music-lovers in Bradford can enjoy a selection of Ska and Vintage Reggae when a long-running festival takes place again on Saturday. Bradford’s Ska and Vintage Reggae Festival will return for its ...

It’s a Sunday afternoon at West End Johnnies in downtown Boston. A band is squeezed onto a little stage beneath a flat screen TV. Lead singer Errol Strength croons Bob Marley's "Is This Love" as he ...

Former Maui Radio DJ Guy Amico (from left), Marty Dread and former Q103 DJ Shaggy Jenkins are starting a new reggae radio station for world broadcast. Courtesy photo The world has a new online reggae ...

No, he quickly realized, it wouldn’t be great. But a band that only played reggae versions of the most cliché New Wave hits from the 1980s — now that was a good idea. Thus was born Jamaican Me ...