When it comes to the history of reggae, Bob Marley is almost always the main event. This month and next, though, another iconic Jamaican artist gets the spotlight. On the heels of his 75th birthday, ...

Reggae music has been around in various incarnations for several decades, originally arising out of the vibrant ska movement of Jamaica and permutating into several micro-genres including roots, dub, ...

Forget the fact that Jamaica failed to qualify for the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain, on the cover of the 1982 album Scientist Wins the World Cup, they give the England national team a royal flogging.

The original practitioners established dub not just as a distinctive reggae offshoot, but as the prototype for all electronic music and its associated practices. By Patricia Meschino On a balmy late ...

The Easy Star All-Stars take on the Spiders from Mars. By Patricia Meschino From its grim, cinematic observations about the apocalypse on opening track “Five Years” to the haunting reassurance that we ...

Puerto Rican born and Los Angeles based Pachy Garcia, better known as Pachyman, is a modern day student of the founders of dub reggae. As a longtime collector of vintage recording gear, Garcia spent ...