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Ziggy Marley isn’t headed for an arena on his next stop in Puerto Rico. He’s booked into the El Patio Lounge in Dorado, a setting that puts one…

Roots reggae was never background music. It was scripture, news bulletin and protest march, pressed onto seven inches of vinyl and carried through Kingston on sound systems that…

There is no snow in Kingston, no chimney on the zinc roof, and nobody roasting chestnuts in Half Way Tree.

The most interesting name on Damian Marley’s new riddim compilation doesn’t belong to any of the singers.

Cutty Ranks has a new single, and the caption he chose to announce it might get more attention than the song itself.

Somebody’s story doesn’t add up. The Bureau of Prisons says Diddy never traded blows with Jamaican drug lord Christopher “Dudus” Coke, but it won’t say how the rapper…

Music executive Maxine Stowe poses for a picture with famed selector Danny Dread. Kenneth “Skengman” Black knew that a dancefloor could deliver a verdict no boardroom could match.

Fifteen artists, one beat, and not a single feature credit in sight. That’s the idea behind No Better Riddim, the full compilation Damian “Jr.

Before dancehall had a name, and before rocksteady and reggae slowed the pulse, Kingston danced to ska.