Steve McQueen’s new “Small Axe” anthology includes a film that centers on an offshoot of reggae that represented big shifts in the music, and in Black British culture. By Jeremy Gordon The lovesick ...

The British Invasion began in the early 1960s when acts from the United Kingdom started finding success in the United States. Most music lovers would assert that the Beatles were the first British act ...

If you’ve seen “Hunger,” “Shame,” or his Oscar-winning “12 Years a Slave,” you know that director Steve McQueen has a singular gift for plunging viewers into his characters’ central nervous systems, ...

Lovers rock doesn’t ask for your permission. When the music saunters through the speakers, your shoulders give way to an easy sway before the rest of your body notices. The groove then takes hold and, ...

If you've seen any of Steve McQueen's work, then you already know that the British filmmaker has got a knack for tackling serious issues and telling powerful stories. But with Lovers Rock, McQueen has ...

Steve McQueen, the Oscar-winning director of “12 Years a Slave” and “Shame,” is best known for his searing big-screen work. So it is fitting that the New York Film Festival would turn to the British ...

BAFTA-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen's first Small Axe film aired on BBC One on Sunday Nov. 15 and it's safe to say it left viewers in their feelings. He has directed five new films exploring the ...

Lovers rock, often dubbed "romantic reggae," is a uniquely Black British sound. Musical documentary about lovers rock, often dubbed "romantic reggae," a uniquely Black British sound that developed in ...

American bands like Guns N’ Roses, Aerosmith, and The Black Crowes are built on the foundation of 1960s British rock bands. The punk bands, too. In 1970s New York, the groups emerging from Max’s ...

With “Lovers Rock,” the wonderful opening-night movie at this year’s dramatically overhauled New York Film Festival, the director Steve McQueen sets aside the spectacles of cruelty that have so often ...

As Jamaica continues to rebuild in the wake of Hurricane Melissa, two giants of the UK reggae scene, Orlando Gittens and Peter Hunnigale, are leading a powerful call for compassion through culture.

“That rock and roll, eh? It might hibernate from time to time and sink back into the swamp...But it’s always waiting there just around the corner ready to make its way back through the sludge and ...