Even if the standout dancehall track of 2015 came from a man in prison, the Caribbean was pumping out music that infiltrated the top of the global charts Sonically interesting and fun, fun, fun, some ...

From Early '80s Rub-a-Dub to 2026 Trap Dancehall - DancehallMag. Dancehall subgenres do not follow a neat evolutionary line. Each wave of the music redefined production, vocabulary, and cultural ...

Last month, the twenty-two-year-old Jamaican singer and rapper Koffee appeared as a musical guest on the “Tonight Show.” The studio’s stage had been outfitted to look like a casual and haphazard dance ...

In this essay, writer AJ Morris explores the cultural history of Jamaican music, from reggae to dancehall, and examines how the medium works in tandem with Jamaican film as acts of protest and ...

She founded the record label that launched Caribbean stars including Sean Paul – and despite poverty and tragedy along the way, Patricia ‘Miss Pat’ Chin still works in the VP office after 60 years ...

In the cultural spaces from which dancehall music gets its name, women are usually the center of attention. The Jamaican genre’s digital rhythms are calibrated to inspire female bodies to wine, as the ...

“I would really like for the artists to come in and make connections and understand the game and not get fucked like the old ones did,” said Shaggy of the third annual confab. By Janeé Bolden Artists, ...

Acclaimed as the greatest British reggae band when it emerged in 1978, Steel Pulse is perhaps the last great old-school reggae band left. Two of its best recordings have been recently released. The ...

Kairo McLean grew up on a steady dose of old school reggae and Jamaican DJs whose skills and sense of rhythm he absorbed by osmosis. He picked up his first instrument, the drums, at the age of three ...