Recording artiste and producer Maroon Queen hopes that her latest track Weed Baby, featuring Dan Gio, will be well received ...

Live music, Caribbean food and vendors are filling Arcadia Creek Festival Site Saturday for the second and final day of the ...

They hope you like jammin’. Because, they want to jam it wit’ you. The second annual Point Break Music Festival will feature more than 20 reggae and reggae-adjacent bands and solo artists June 21 and ...

In recent years, there’s been a lot of talk about “roots” music. Is it folk music? Is it country, blues, rock? The answer is ...

I'm following Kanaka Maoli ethnomusicologist Kevin Fellezs's work here. Nahenahe is often used to describe Hawaiian music, and I think that’s carried over into island reggae. A lot of Jamaican roots ...

Roots reggae has reverberated throughout the Polynesian Pacific with its up-from-struggle message resonating with Hawaiians, Aboriginal Australians and especially New Zealand's Maoris.

The recent death of veteran roots reggae star Max Romeo has underlined the crisis of identity and continuity that haunts reggae. Who will carry the mantle going forward, industry insiders are asking.

Max Romeo, a reggae singer whose earliest hits dripped with sexual innuendo, but who then switched to a soulful, politically engaged message that provided a soundtrack to the class struggles of ...

The nominated LP is Cali Roots Riddim 2023, produced by New Orleans born, Bermuda-raised singjay Collie Buddz, and featuring a stellar cast of Jamaican and American reggae artists. Cali Roots ...

The 8th annual Sunshine Reggae Roots Festival rocked the streets outside of Celtic Fox Saturday evening. Members of the ...

Levi Roots was a stage name he'd used while performing in a reggae band at 16 years old. He explains: “I found 90 per cent of Jamaicans had Scottish names because of slavery.

Roots reggae had been – in the words of Jamaican sociologist Orlando Patterson – "the very antithesis of commodification, fetishization and standardization", ...