Reggae News

With a lineup of "Prince Paul and the Conscious Party" and "The Uprising", the 4th Annual Bayfront Reggae Festival was throwing down beats in Duluth today.

Dancehall superstar Sean Paul began scoring hit singles in Jamaica starting in 1996 and thereafter steadily began attracting international attention, eventual breaking into the pop mainstream in 2002 with Dutty Rock.

Streetwise poet Benjamin Zephaniah paid a visit to Chichester to help inspire literature students.

Baaba Maal and Angelique Kidjo were among the headliners in a tribute to Island Records founder Chris Blackwell that rocked into the early hours at the Montreux Festival on Saturday.

The 'world's Greatest Reggae Festival', Reggae Sumfest, has come a long way from that memorable night on August 11, 1993 when a group of Montego Bay business and entertainment moguls launched the first in the series of annual concerts at the Catherine Hall Entertainment Complex in the city.

When one thinks of reggae music, most first thoughts don't drift to that of a rock quarry.

AN Andover band is looking forward to giving the crowds something a little different at tomorrowa s, Twangfest at Testbourne Community School in Whitchurch.

Ska band Hakuna Pesa will take to the stage at this week's Real Ale And Jazz Festival in Chichester for a performance dedicated to Ben Gregory.

This year's version of Rock The Bells came off pretty much without a hitch as rapper Nas and reggae star Damian Marley capped off the day-long affair Sunday before a roughly half-filled Molson Amphitheatre.

More On The Nas/Damian Marley Collaboration Posted by Mitch Michaels on 07.08.2009 "It's not reggae.

If you build the groove, they will come. Tuesday night, Hopeton Lewis, Ken Boothe, Leroy Sibbles, Stranger Cole, the Tamlins, Marcia Griffiths and Judy Mowatt, and Bongo Herman brought it all the way from Zion.

During the campaign, I wrote a piece called " Why Won't Obama Talk About Columbia? - The years he won't discuss may explain the Ayers tie he keeps lying about ." So now, nearly six months into the Obama presidency, the mainstream media has finally done a bit of the candidate background reporting it declined to do during the campaign - other than in ...

The art of the humble cover version has been re-awakened by French act Nouvelle Vague who demonstrate what can be achieved when artists apply the same creativity into reworking hits as in writing them.

In the world of entertainment, reggae festivals are big business. Some 60 reggae festivals will be held worldwide in the month of July, but Jamaican acts make up only about 25 per cent of the line-up, with the other 75 per cent being foreign acts who have made their name doing reggae music.

Reggae's most transcendent and iconic figure, Bob Marley was the first Jamaican artist to achieve international superstardom, in the process introducing the music of his native island nation to the far-flung corners of the globe.

Or... Most hotels in downtown #Chicago are a $4-10 taxi ride to the sites to see.

Guilfest is upon us soon with a smashing line-up of bands performing on no less than seven stages next weekend.

Parents' guide: for all. There are at least a couple of versions of how rocksteady came to be.

Slightly Stoopid drew 7,000 to The Canyons last year. Pepper sold out Harry O's. Now the ski town gets the island music they clearly want to see in Park City.

Reggae artist Winston Rodney, a.k.a. Burning Spear, won a Grammy for his album "Jah Is Real,'' the first produced on his own record label.