It was 1973 in Berkeley when Roger Steffens, thumbing through Rolling Stone magazine, became aware of a percolating, distant island music movement called reggae. He sought the sound out in record bins ...
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 ...
The Wailers will perform at Newton Theatre on Friday, October 26. The band backed reggae pioneer Bob Marley from 1974 until his death in 1981. The members of that group who remain in current line-up ...
In June 1964, a country music fan in Jamaica who regularly listened to Nashville’s 50,000-watt radio station WSM sent a letter to the editor of Billboard, who proclaimed it the first such ...
Multiple Grammy-nominated reggae musician, Rocky Dawuni, has expressed concern that Ghanaian radio stations are keeping reggae music stuck in the past by continually recycling songs that are over a ...