Released in April 1973, Catch A Fire catapulted Bob Marley and the Wailers to global stardom. The sub-hooks of bassist Aston ‘Family Man’ Barrett, together with his drumming brother Carly, played a ...

Island Records founder Chris Blackwell recounts his adventures in the music business in the new book The Islander. Among Blackwell's accomplishments was bringing reggae artists like Bob Marley ...

Joe Gibbs, 65, an influential reggae music producer who helped create the 1970s hit “Two Sevens Clash” for Culture, died Feb. 20 of a heart attack in Jamaica, according to news reports. Born Joel ...

Jason Mraz’s current album, Look For the Good, found him achieving his dream of recording a reggae record where he could, “…sing over tasty grooves, reverberated snares and sticky echoed-out pockets.” ...

Sly Dunbar, a pioneering reggae drummer, has died. He was 73. Most widely known as one-half of the production and performing partnership Sly & Robbie - along with Robbie Shakespeare - he crafted and ...

Growing up in Southern England, Bob Bell fell in love with Jamaican music as soon as he bought his first recording, in 1963. As far as he was concerned, the explosion of musical creativity in that ...

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — Despite going through numerous lead singers and musicians, this legendary group came to be synonymous with reggae music for decades. For over 50 years Black Uhuru (Uhuru is ...

When you factor in a history that includes at least 60 years of music, the participating in the birth of reggae music, and the building of the world’s largest independent Caribbean music label, “My ...