Within reggae, few people could argue that Beres Hammond is revered as one of the greatest balladeers to ever live — if not the best. His honey-coated voice and soul-jarring lyrics have united ...

Wide Angle Steve McQueen Gives Us His Song-by-Song Guide to Lovers Rock The director breaks down the music of his new movie—and breaks into falsetto.

Writer-director Steve McQueen’s five-part anthology, Small Axe, has already captivated Black cinephiles around the globe.The first two films — Mangrove and Lovers Rock — are wildly different ...

Steve McQueen's upcoming film Lovers Rocks airs on BBC One Sunday, November 22, as part of his Small Axe anthology series exploring the Black experience in Britain during the 60s and 80s. The new ...

‘Lovers Rock‘ is the second film in Steve McQueen's ‘Small Axe‘ film series for Amazon. Music is arguably the star, with an amazing reggae soundtrack featuring Augustus Pablo, Janet Kay ...

In his exploration of lovers rock, the music became more than the background noise he used to disregard it as. He and Yama worked on a few early cuts and “from that first session, we knew that ...

On top of all that, “the music was the scent in the air which changed everything,” he explained. Lovers rock represented a major shift. “Pre-lovers rock, it was predominantly a male dance ...