Brinsley Forde as Blue in Franco Rosso’s Babylon (courtesy of Kino Lorber Repertory/Seventy-Seven) Jah! Rastafari! This chant, repeated like a mantra, is a cry of faith and defiance. In the film ...

The Expanders take pains to duplicate the sounds of classic Jamaican music using old tube guitar amps, vintage organs, and Leslie speakers, but there’s some irony in doing so, according to rhythm ...

February marks National Reggae Month — a time to celebrate the rich anthology of Jamaican music and honor the birthdays of late icons Dennis Brown and Bob Marley. The festival will include dancers ...

Reggae music pioneer Bob Marley died at the too-young age of 36 in 1981 from melanoma. But his music lives forever in the hearts of music fans, if sales are an indication. His 1984 "Legend" best-of ...

No one does music fandom quite like the British. They immerse themselves in their favorite music, whatever its place of origin. They create new subcultures around it, designating new subgenres the ...

With the release of the new, expansive Bob Marley documentary, it's clearer than ever that Marley is one of the 20th century's key musicians. But a reggae collection that stops with the Wailers is far ...

Exactly 40 years ago, reggae legend Jimmy Cliff was introduced to the wide world as the hard-scrabble country boy Ivan Martin in the Jamaican crime film “The Harder They Come.” The movie (now revered ...

John Lennon was a fan of a classic reggae song. In addition, he said the song’s success represented how much listeners’ musical tastes had changed since the early 1960s. Notably, John felt that the ...

Chicago may be famous for blues and jazz, but this multifaceted city serves up lots of other genres, including reggae. No, the city doesn't have the palm trees and salty breezes to accompany the cool ...