DJ Soft Wax, mainstay of the Deptford Dub Club, is sitting in a 1950s south-east London living room. Only it’s 2016, and he’s in Hull.

At these DIY shindigs the West Indian community, often not welcome in mainstream clubs, would get together in residential houses to hear the sounds of Jamaica – rocksteady, reggae and ska ...

Skillibeng & More Reggae/Dancehall Fresh Picks of the Month: Boyzie, Kranium, Vybz Kartel, Etana & More Fast forward 60 years to the second annual Caribbean Music Awards, held on Aug. 29 at Kings ...

Daliso Chaponda at Blackheath Halls First performing his show “Feed This Black Man” 20 years ago, Daliso Chaponda is bringing ...

Krept & Konan have spoken to NME about their groovy new single 'Smooth Lovin', and their upcoming fourth studio album 'Young Kingz II'.

She was a key figure in Jamaican music. Born in 1940 in Kingston, Jamaica, she began her career in the 1960s. Her influence spanned ska, rocksteady, and reggae. Watson was not only a singer but also a ...

Rocksteady with the New York City Ska Orchestra, a 20-piece big band of top-notch musicians, who perform lush, original compositions and arrangements of songs from the iconic golden eras of Jamaican ...

Exploring five of the greatest cover versions of 'Louie, Louie', the song penned by Richard Berry before being turned into a ...

They influenced Jamaican musicians, helping speed up the rocksteady tempo, and they played with Bob Marley, Toots Hibbert and had music produced by Lee Scratch Perry. In short, they were massive.

“In all my time doing this, meeting Smokey Robinson was one of the greatest moments,” Wakeling reminisced as an intro to “The Tears of a Clown”, which the band reimagined in a rock-steady rhythm ...