Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The drummer half of the influential duo Sly & Robbie, Sly Dunbar, shown around 2000, helped shape modern reggae for decades. He ...

For decades, reggae and other styles of Jamaican music have infiltrated popular music worldwide. It’s in the DNA of everything from hip hop to punk to electronic music to reggaeton to Afrobeats and ...

Tempe Beach Park is preparing for another three days of basslines, sunshine and crowds who somehow stay mellow when the ...

Scikron Entertainment — Big Yard Music launched the Happy Wife rhythm with its début track You Don’t Have to Ask by Christopher Martin. This track carries the heartbeat of reggae, blending a classic ...

Test your “J-dar” by briefly considering two modern reggae artists. Nasio Fontaine, the son of a Carib Indian mother and a father of African descent, has long locks and a stirring, world-weary voice.

John Lennon was a fan of a classic reggae song. In addition, he said the song’s success represented how much listeners’ musical tastes had changed since the early 1960s. Notably, John felt that the ...

Lowell "Sly" Dunbar, the Jamaican drummer whose work in the rhythm section of Sly and Robbie built the backbone of modern reggae, has died. He was 73. Several Jamaican newspapers, including the ...

The drummer half of the influential duo Sly & Robbie, Sly Dunbar, shown around 2000, helped shape modern reggae for decades. He was a two-time Grammy winner. (Peter Noble / Redferns / Getty Images) ...