Pop culture can be as forbidding as it is inviting, particularly in areas that invite geeky obsession: The more devotion a genre, series, or subculture inspires, the easier it is for the uninitiated ...

KINGSTON (Reuters) - The main event at fight night in Kingston, a popular boxing showcase, was hours away, but the crowd at the National Stadium's indoor arena, from the young and hip to the elderly, ...

Radiohead guitarist teams with Trojan Records for a reggae compilation heavy on 70s roots and dub, particularly the work of Lee "Scratch" Perry. Save this story Save this story With their divisive ...

The Levitate festival, happening in Marshfield this weekend, annually presents two heady days of funk, roots, R&B and jam-band music. Today’s co-headliner, Rebelution, plays a little of all the above ...

Sunday night,Burning Spear, the recently reunited Wailing Souls and Sly and Robbie, showed Hollywood showed the range of emotions and sounds that drew rock fans to roots reggae in the '70s and '80s.

Jamaican music is suddenly the ubiquitous chaser to this summer's nasty shot of a heatwave. Rising star Cham's "Ghetto Story" single was a monster hit in Jamaica; an album of the same name was ...

If you travel through Africa and speak with musicians, you'll encounter various accounts of reggae's African origins. Perhaps only hip-hop boasts more claims of primal ownership on the continent.

It’s rare that some of the biggest and most influential artists in Jamaican roots reggae would appear in Sacramento in a single month – but that’s currently the case as Israel Vibration, The Roots ...

As a Grammy-award winning filmmaker, musician and DJ, Don Letts is well placed to observe the shifting sands of youth subculture, and the societal forces that guide them. Now aged 62, or “as old as ...

On the surface, reggae seems as relaxing as a cool drink on a hot summer day. But if you listen closely, you'll find there's more to it than that, says Roots Almighty frontman Jesus Martinez. "At ...