What might feel most uncanny about Completely Necessary is the way the anthology anticipates waves of music that would follow ...

Lila Iké's full-length debut album, Treasure Self Love, has been nominated for a Grammy. Iké spoke to All Things Considered about being one of the only women ever to receive a nomination for best ...

If you were a teen in the 70s, I bet you know these 1974 one-hit wonders very well. They might even be burned into your ...

As one half of the famed rhythm duo Sly and Robbie, he played with some of the biggest names in music, including Bob Dylan ...

The Long Beach-born Nitty Gritty Dirt Band celebrated 60 years with 'Night After Night,' released in October, marking a ...

The reggae legend and iconic drummer, Lowell Fillmore "Sly" Dunbar, commonly known as Sly Dunbar, passed away at 73 on ...

Spanning more than five decades, Lowell 'Sly' Dunbar’s career yielded an untold number of recordings—a legacy that officially ...

Popular Ghanaian comedian-turned-reggae artiste, David Oscar Dogbe, has revealed that award-winning musician Stonebwoy played a pivotal role in inspiring his transition from comedy into music. He made ...

Classic rock, to many listeners, peaked in the 1970s. That’s a notion that is certainly debatable, but one can’t deny that some of the best classic rock albums hit the shelves in the 1970s, ...

One thing about Jimmy Cliff, he understood the assignment. “My role was and is inspiring people,” he told me in 1999, backstage in Oracabessa, Jamaica during the filming of a television special ...

Even in 1969, Jimmy Cliff, who died Monday at age 81, could see what was coming. Though British rule over his home country of Jamaica ended in 1962, independence and economic mismanagement led to high ...

Jimmy Cliff built a lasting legacy for himself in reggae. The late singer, who died at 81 on November 24, 2025, was the mastermind behind hits like “Many Rivers to Cross” and “Vietnam.” His family ...