Yesterday, my co-worker shared a video with me from Apollo’s Theater’s beloved Amateur Night. In it, a contestant performed the reggae version of Chaka Khan’s “Sweet Thing.” After she had shared the ...

I have zero confidence I can predict what the world will be like next year, much less in a hundred years. But I can bet that a century from now, Nirvana‘s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” will be remembered ...

Pansori, a Korean musical tradition performed with highly stylized vocals and arrhythmic drumming, may be stylistically as far from reggae music, a genre originating in Jamaica in the late 1960s. But ...

Dylan’s “Jokerman” is out on vinyl disc and due for digital release later this month. Well-known reggae record producer Doctor Dread of Calistoga has created a new 12-inch vinyl disc, released July 17 ...

Veteran super-producer Clive Hunt has teamed up with French reggae artiste Snight B and reggae icons Marcia Griffiths and Tarrus Riley, to produce ‘Make We Dance’, a powerful cross-genre collaboration ...

The sirens and snares that soundtrack Bobby Shmurda's "Hot Nigga" echoed from cars and iPhones across the country this summer, racking up millions of streams online and steadily rising on Billboard ...

Since he was a young boy, DJ Triple Crown would select records to play in the household from his record-collecting father’s impressive collection. However, he always seemed to gravitate towards the ...

While most cornerstone genres, like rock, hip hop and country, were developed predominantly in the US and Britain, reggae originated in 1960s Jamaica. Similar to hip hop, reggae got its name from a ...