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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 ...

The 1972 movie “The Harder They Come,” which follows the journey of Ivan, who hopes to become a music star and soon finds himself on the run from police, is now a piece of theater. Assistant Managing ...

Any history of reggae going global must trace a path directly from Kingston to London. It’s this connection that photographer Alex Bartsch hopes to make clear in his forthcoming book, Covers: ...

Reggae music pioneer Bob Marley died at the too-young age of 36 in 1981 from melanoma. But his music lives forever in the hearts of music fans, if sales are an indication. His 1984 "Legend" best-of ...

Simply put, reggae as a global phenomenon begins with The Harder They Come. Before most people outside Jamaica could tell you who Bob Marley was, Cliff put the world on notice that something explosive ...

Bongo Boy Music/Madacy Label Group will on May 15 release "Reggae Rocks - The Tide Is High," the first of a planned six-disc compilation series of reggae artists covering classic rock and pop songs… ...

For decades, reggae and other styles of Jamaican music have infiltrated popular music worldwide. It’s in the DNA of everything from hip hop to punk to electronic music to reggaeton to Afrobeats and ...

Queens-based reggae independent VP Records has relaunched U.K. reggae label Blood and Fire, known primarily for its quality reissues of Jamaican recordings from the 1970s and '80s, many of which were… ...

Charlie Wild’s lifelong love affair with music began at just four years old, with thunderous Led Zeppelin riffs that rattled the speakers of his older brother’s ’72 Camaro. “My brother had this ’72 ...

Steve McQueen‘s Small Axe, a series of five films about the West Indian experience in the UK in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, is currently airing on Amazon/BBC. The second Small Axe film, Lovers Rock, just ...

“To a lot of people, reggae is Bob Marley, and why go any further?” lamented Malcolm Allen, the salesperson at the unique East Village reggae shop Jammyland. “I learn new stuff every day listening to ...