Whatever mood you're in, contemporary reggae has a tune for you. That's because Jamaican music is a study in contrasts: Songs veer from sacred to profane, sexy to spiritual, blisteringly aggressive to ...

Walk through any mall, and you’ll see stores filled with racks of clothes in the red, green and gold of Jamaica. Stroll through any college campus, and you may hear the sounds of Bob Marley’s “Legend” ...

For a small place, Jamaica exerts a big influence. It covers an area of less than 11 000km2, with fewer than three million inhabitants. But ask anyone with even a passing interest in music to name its ...

Late one night after his wife and kids were asleep, Scott Aiges started strumming Tom Petty’s “Refugee” on guitar, but with a reggae lilt. A light bulb went off: Wouldn’t it be great for a band to ...

Our list of the 10 best songs by the reggae legend, from "Dearest Beverley" to "I Can See Clearly Now." Few names are as synonymous with reggae music as Jimmy Cliff. The Grammy-winning artist, whose ...

Adrian Thrills investigates 2 Tone and its unique blend of ska, reggae, new wave and punk. The Specials live in session for Steve Lamacq on BBC Radio 6 Music. A trip into the BBC archives to explore ...

Reggae has had a massive impact on the world and in Africa it was one of the biggest genres of music. Its greatest influences came from the early 70s with the likes of Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Culture ...

In 2011, Jamaican writer and activist Dutty Bookman coined the phrase “reggae revival” to describe artists like Protoje, Chronixx, Jah9, Kabaka Pyramid, Jesse Royal, and others who tended to favor ...

No, he quickly realized, it wouldn’t be great. But a band that only played reggae versions of the most cliché New Wave hits from the 1980s — now that was a good idea. Thus was born Jamaican Me ...