Intro from KCRW DJ Tom Schnabel: Gregory Isaacs was one of reggae’s great love rockers. His song “Night Nurse” was a worldwide hit. When I was music director, KCRW had a weekly 4-hour reggae show that ...

It was 1973 in Berkeley when Roger Steffens, thumbing through Rolling Stone magazine, became aware of a percolating, distant island music movement called reggae. He sought the sound out in record bins ...

Chris “DeRoc” DeBose, leader and lead singer of local reggae/world beat/funk band the Revealers, served 10 years in the Marine Corps. His tours of duty included a violent hitch in Beirut and a stint ...

The inaugural Green Mountain Reggae Festival debuts September 6 through 8 at the Bradford Fairgrounds. With a stacked lineup of top reggae talent from Vermont and abroad, the fest features Easy Star ...

Head to the Alps and you’ll be surprised to hear Sizzla and Vybz Kartel punctuating the yodels. This is largely thanks to a local sound system crew, Soldia Sound, who’ve been bringing the champion ...

If there is ever a Reggae Hall of Fame, Hiroko Okuda at Casio Computer Co. would be a fitting nominee for a monumental contribution she unknowingly made to the popular Jamaican musical genre. Casio ...

It shouldn’t work… but it does! We deconstruct a classic groove When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Although identifying the original ...

Ten years after the death of its greatest proponent, the beat of reggae music settles deeper into its groove, becoming an established part of the popular music scene. A number of major reggae ...

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 ...