KALAMAZOO, MI -- The classic roots reggae of The Meditations is nearly four decades old, but it's still relevant, Ansel Cridland feels. Cridland -- also known as Ansel Meditation -- will bring the ...

Think of Etana as reggae's Jill Scott: She's a Jamaican soul singer with a voice that's rich, robust and saturated in the right kind of buoyancy — sage but never preachy. Etana's sophomore album Free ...

Once one of pop music's most distinctive and controversial stars, Sinead O'Connor returns for a night of Jamaican roots music with reggae legends Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, recorded live at ...

A devoutly Rastafarian vocal group led by Joseph Hill, Culture released this, their debut album, in 1977; enshrined in the canon as a roots-reggae classic, the record has been reissued in expanded ...

Something magical was brewing in the Jamaican music scene in the late 1960’s. Popular dance forms like ska were blending with rural folk sounds, and the whole thing was coming under the influence of R ...

The lovingly conceived, brilliantly executed, multi-platform Rocksteady: The Roots Of Reggae aims to achieve the same sort of museum piece-to-modernity transformation for Jamaican rocksteady that ...

Recently, a bit of reggae history was made in Las Vegas at the close of the Bob Marley Roots Rock Reggae Festival when Ziggy and Stephen Marley, his only sons with Rita Marley, joined Bunny Wailer in ...

It comes as no surprise that Putumayo dedicated an entire album to Jamaica’s musical heritage. After all, reggae is possibly the most popular ethnic music of choice outside its native homeland.