Modern English’s I Melt with You flopped on release but became an ’80s new wave classic after the 1983 film Valley Girl ...
Jimmy Cliff, whose performance in the1972 film The Harder They Come helped reggae music dent the mainstream for the first ...
Hartford will be home to a new music festival this summer. Tickets are on sale now for the inaugural Capital City Music & Beer Festival at Trinity Health Stadium, on July 14 and 15. Stream Connecticut ...
Late one night after his wife and kids were asleep, Scott Aiges started strumming Tom Petty’s “Refugee” on guitar, but with a reggae lilt. A light bulb went off: Wouldn’t it be great for a band to ...
A few years ago, Jamaica was seeing a roots reggae revival. After dancehall took hold in the ’80s, reggae had receded a bit, becoming more of a tourist attraction than a vital current in Jamaican ...
Jimmy Cliff, singer, songwriter and star of 'The Harder They Come' and an ambassador for reggae music, has died. He was 81.
I still haven’t written my best song I’m pursuing that all the time. If my music can uplift someone to make them want to live a better life and not give up, that is a big success for me.” Jimmy ...
The concept of the compilation Out of Many: 50 Years of Reggae Music is simple. 50 years ago, Jamaica won independence from the British-ruled West Indies Federation. Around that same time, popular ...
There have been few more dynamic periods in New York City musical history than the 1980s, when a wide variety of artists across an even wider number of genres—punk, pop, hip-hop, salsa, jazz and ...
While San Antonio remains Sgt. Remo’s home base, his musical reach has grown internationally, especially south of the border. Credit: Courtesy Photo / Sgt. Remo From Tejano to country, brown-eyed soul ...