Get the inside track from Roisin O'Connor with our free weekly music newsletter Now Hear This Get our free music newsletter Now Hear This When it comes to Jamaican music, Patricia Chin has heard it ...

Last month, the twenty-two-year-old Jamaican singer and rapper Koffee appeared as a musical guest on the “Tonight Show.” The studio’s stage had been outfitted to look like a casual and haphazard dance ...

Kairo McLean grew up on a steady dose of old school reggae and Jamaican DJs whose skills and sense of rhythm he absorbed by osmosis. He picked up his first instrument, the drums, at the age of three ...

The Van Gordon Martin Band will be performing Thursday September 5 at the South Shore Music Hall, opening for the acclaimed Colorado funk-rock jamband known as The Motet. Martin came to Boston in the ...

In what world do reggae and Angela Lansbury collide? On CBC Radio, DJ Tom Power interviewed the 93-year-old actress, best known for the CBS series “Murder She Wrote.” Lansbury played the crime-solving ...

Old reggae meets the politics of persecution on the MC’s twisted dancehall debut Dancehall: while a friendly iteration of this sound has made its presence felt in the charts, London and Berlin-based ...