Listen to 10 new must-hear reggae, dancehall and soca songs by Nailah Blackman and Skip Marley. By Kyle Denis With just days to go before the reveal of the 2025 Grammy nominations, a few of the ...

Was Beenie Man motivated to sign to the Reggae Compassionate Act by love or money? Organisers of the Stop Murder Music campaign must be delighted to have three of dancehall's biggest stars pledging ...

The two Jamaican superstars are both staking their claim for the King of Dancehall crown. By Kyle Denis The “King of ...

In this essay, writer AJ Morris explores the cultural history of Jamaican music, from reggae to dancehall, and examines how the medium works in tandem with Jamaican film as acts of protest and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. That same self-determination, that instinct toward rebelling against the establishment, and of course, that inextricable tie to ...

Sean Paul has been running reggae and dancehall since the early 2000s, charting with hits like "Get Busy" and "Temperature" while solidifying his spot as one of the best artists of his era. After ...

However you feel about the real Mount Rushmore (a 60-foot monument to white patriarchy blasted into the Black Hills of South Dakota with TNT), it has irreversibly entered the language as a metaphor ...

In the first week of May, the American music industry commenced a semi-annual tradition: singling out a lone piece of Jamaican music and sending it up the charts. 2018’s lucky winner is “Walking ...

In indie circles, there’s a rekindled interest in ska, rocksteady, dub and digi dancehall happening as well, primarily in California. Noisy lo-fi acts like Sun Araw and Peaking Lights dabble heavily.

Reading the Jamaica Gleaner this week, I fell upon an article announcing the fact that six of the 10 records in the Billboard Reggae chart are by non-Jamaicans. Nothing against Matisyahu, but given ...