Magnum Tonic Wine concluded its Ultimate Dancehall Experience promotion with an authentic experience at Boom Sundays for the ...

K-Cut and Sir Scratch from the group and Large Professor (formerly of the group) appear in Duke’s film among other greats, ...

New York-based podcaster-entrepreneur Kerry Ann Brown believes that dancehall's resurgence as a live music form in the Big ...

The themes and lyrics of reggae music have served as a platform for storytelling that reflected Jamaica’s history of rebellion. Deejays — as the vocalists were known — told stories of ...

Jamaica's new music revolution That beat you can't get out of your head is reggae -- think Sean Paul, not Marley -- and it's inspiring everyone from Missy to Beyonce to No Doubt. Inside the ...

The dancehall singles that make it past these obstacles in the U.S. generally start on New York’s Hot 97 radio — “the biggest supporter of Caribbean music in America,” explains Julian ...

"I’m fighting for dancehall music out of Jamaica, music in general out of Jamaica," Vegas said in a phone interview. "Not to just play on a few radio stations on the East Coast.

Amanda Petrusich on Jamaica’s dancehall-music scene and the book “Serious Things A Go Happen: Three Decades of Jamaican Dancehall Signs,” by Maxine Walters.

In Jamaican music's immediate family, there are reggae, dancehall, ska, rocksteady, dub and mento and Nyabinghi. Close cousins? That would be hip-hop, reggaeton, EDM and Afrobeats. Learn about all ...

Look up “controversy” in the Jamaican dictionary and you might find a photo of Adidjah Palmer, a.k.a. dancehall star Vybz Kartel. The 35-year-old launched his career over a decade ago as a ...