Bob Marley is gone but his brand of reggae lives on thanks in part to the Wailers, fronted by bassist and music director Aston “Family Man” Barrett, who reformed the band after the departure of ...

They don’t have joints sticking out of their mouths nor do they have long braided Rastafarian hair—they’re just two good Iranian Jewish boys playing Reggae music. Their bandâ s name has nothing to do ...

Walk through any mall, and you’ll see stores filled with racks of clothes in the red, green and gold of Jamaica. Stroll through any college campus, and you may hear the sounds of Bob Marley’s “Legend” ...

Not since Matisyahu has an American created a buzz in reggae music. J Boog (Jerry Afemata) brings an authentic Jamaican reggae sound to his music. I caught up with Boog, whose Feb. 5 show at Sound ...

As if on cue, the audience of 21,000 began to sing along word for word, note for note. But it wasn't Harper's song they knew by heart. It was that of Marley, who remains a deity in the world of reggae ...

For a couple of years now, the Deschutes County Fair & Expo Center in Redmond has hosted large-scale festivals focused on country music and electronic music. Now it’s reggae’s turn. The inaugural ...

As one of the most sought-after disc jockeys on the contemporary Reggae and Dancehall scene, ZJ Sparks has long stood as an ambassador of Reggae music, and was honored by TIDAL’s outreach to ...

Pop culture can be as forbidding as it is inviting, particularly in areas that invite geeky obsession: The more devotion a genre, series, or subculture inspires, the easier it is for the uninitiated ...

Chances are Toronto isn't the first city people envision when hearing the sweet baseline of a reggae record — after all, this is the genre birthed out of sunshine, faith and love, not snow and Tim ...