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 ...

And so it was with the reggae edition (part of the Reggae Britannia season), which took a brisk 90-minute march from reggae's arrival in Britain from Jamaica in the Sixties to the point where it ...

From KCRW DJ Jeremy Sole: The days are longer and the weather is hotter, people it’s Reggae time once again in Los Angeles! It’s an honor being the annual host of Reggae NightHollywood Bowl at the as ...

With 2026 marking the 60th year since the birth of rocksteady, not many of that genre’s stars are still around. Keith and Tex ...

You're in for a pre-Thanksgiving treat. Yesterday, I posted on a 1964 Jamaican mini documentary on ska, the island's dominant dance music of the early 1960s. Today. I found a high-resolution print of ...

I never really had a reggae phase, though I did try to grow dreads once (it did not turn out well). Of course I've always enjoyed Bob Marley, but he sort of transcends genres in a way that not many ...

Roots reggae fans should be out in force at Saturday’s performance by The Melodians at Sound Wave (formerly ’Canes) in Mission Beach, and for very good reason. Formed in 1965 by singers Brent Dowe, ...

Ska and Reggae have their roots tied tightly around music in Jamaica in the 1960's. It has come and gone through the past decades and we're now seeing the 4th wave of Ska/Reggae resurgence. Here are ...

The Roots of Reggae is a musical journey to Jamaica's Golden Age of music, Rocksteady. The film features the music and stories of the legendary singers and musicians of the Rocksteady era. They come ...