Jamaican music is suddenly the ubiquitous chaser to this summer's nasty shot of a heatwave. Rising star Cham's "Ghetto Story" single was a monster hit in Jamaica; an album of the same name was ...

Cliff recorded his iconic version in 1972, and it quickly became one of the most recognizable feel good songs in music ...

The lovingly conceived, brilliantly executed, multi-platform Rocksteady: The Roots Of Reggae aims to achieve the same sort of museum piece-to-modernity transformation for Jamaican rocksteady that ...

Reggae music pioneer Bob Marley died at the too-young age of 36 in 1981 from melanoma. But his music lives forever in the hearts of music fans, if sales are an indication. His 1984 "Legend" best-of ...

It comes as no surprise that Putumayo dedicated an entire album to Jamaica’s musical heritage. After all, reggae is possibly the most popular ethnic music of choice outside its native homeland.

This is a serious compilation of some of dancehall reggae’s more left-field hits, many of which surfaced on North American shores only in the form of rare 45s in Brooklyn mom-and-pop stores. Serious ...