With Reggae Month three weeks away, Ewan Simpson, chairman of the Jamaica Reggae Industry Association (JaRIA), says a full slate of activities are planned for February. But in an interview with the ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica —For many years, Jamaican artistes who live overseas have returned to their country to work with musicians and engineers to get an authentic reggae feel. Errol Wizdom did that for ...

Every new year brings the same question for music fans: what’s next? After a year that brought about some amazing albums, it reminded listeners that great art still rises to the top, even within an ...

Metalheads have always found transcendence, exultation, and deliverance in music’s heaviest genre where everyone else has heard noise. Sometimes you need to feel like the sound coming out of your ...

From Chronixx to Armanii, these are the best albums to come out of the West Indies this year. By Kyle Denis Nobody does it quite like the Caribbean, and 2025 only offered more proof. King of Dancehall ...

What were 2025's best rock albums? While we recently shared with you the 51 Best Rock + Metal Albums of 2025 with you and named Three Days Grace's Alienation our Rock Album of the Year, we have not ...

For the sixth consecutive year, Marley’s Legend compilation album registers top sales in the genre, while no releases from 2025 are present. Bob Marley and The Wailers’ Legend first released in 1984 ...

If we needed any more proof that the album isn't dead, 2025 was it. On this episode, Stephen Thompson is joined by Ann Powers and Daoud Tyler-Ameen to run through 12 dazzling albums that stuck with ...

In 2025, bands had a lot to say about the state of the world, from La Dispute’s No One Was Driving the Car, which surveyed late-stage capitalism, and End It, who examined class structure through ...

It’s been a good year for jazz, diverse in every way—styles, influences, tastes, and demographics too. I didn’t aim the list to turn out this way, but four of the albums’ leaders are women, and five ...