Colorado has long had a loving relationship with reggae music. By extension, that has led to a number of quality ska bands in the punk-rock scene. With the Wailers coming to Denver’s Gothic Theatre on ...

“Black coat, white shoes, black hat, Cadillac, yeah/The boy’s a time bomb.” Can anyone forget the first time they heard Armstrong’s shopping list of rebel style shouting out of a radio or MTV?

AFA copy 39088019752104 gift from Janet Stanley. Roots -- Reggae, Rastafarianism and Cultural Identity / Verena Reckord -- from "Reggae, Rastafarians and Revolution: Rock Music in the Third World" / ...

I love all music, but admit some genres draw the short straw when it’s time for me to tune in. Reggae and ska are a couple of those styles I’d like to know more about. Who better to ask than the ...

“You have to put in the time,” says Ernest Ranglin about how he developed into such an eloquent guitarist – and the 82-year-old legend knows a thing or two about what it takes to become a master.

The University of Minnesota’s School of Music held the nation’s first International Summer Institute for Reggae Studies last month, a significant first step in increasing the overall education and ...

“We’re the Interrupters! We’re from Los Angeles, California!” the young guitarist announces over a fanfare, as the camera pulls back and reveals a four-piece band, plus a singer, and a crush of ...

Orlando fans might have missed out on seeing alternative/ska legends Fishbone when the Orlando date of their “One Nation Under a Groove” tour with George Clinton was cancelled, but next month’s Rising ...

Reggae music became popular in the late 1960s, when young people were excited about it and gravitated to the new sound. The artists were mainly grass-roots people who used their voices to articulate a ...

Frederick Nathaniel Hibbert, better known to generations of ska, rocksteady and reggae fans by his nickname Toots as lead singer of the legendary band Toots and the Maytals, died Friday from ...

Roots, reggae and ska will fill Stateline’s Lakeview Loft Thursday, Jan. 14, for the latest show by South Shore event promoters FNCTN. The Sacto Storytellers headline the performance, part of a ...

Flip through the local radio channels and it won’t be long until you hear a reggae song. The characteristic one drop drumming and offbeat-emphasized rhythm dominates popular music in the islands, and ...