It’s late summer. Twelfth grade is starting in two weeks, and I — moody guy that I am — am in a particularly foul one when my friend Blair, who I’ve known since our mothers toted us around in ...
There is something within reggae music that lifts people’s spirits, says Dave Cochran, guitarist for the Pittsburgh-area band FUBAR, whose sound is rooted in reggae. “It’s feel-good music,” said ...
A newly restored 1979 documentary examines how Linton Kwesi Johnson’s dub-infused poetry documented the challenges faced by Britain’s Black Caribbean population. By Patricia Meschino See more of our ...
R&B singer-songwriter Ravyn Lenae speaks about her Afro Latina heritage, collaborating with Doechii and blossoming in her new album 'Blue Island.' ...
German band HASA has released its second album STREIK, mixing jazz, funk, blues, reggae and dialect lyrics following its 2022 Baden-Württemberg Cabaret Prize win.
The Bad Brains bassist discusses his new jazz album and why decades with one instrument taught him that great tone starts in ...
There's a high chance Public Image Ltd might not have existed without Johnny Rotten spending some time in Jamaica, in a haze ...
We were swept up in the moment and full of testosterone. The 90s wasn’t a time when men were encouraged to be sensitive’ ...
RADAR Festival returned to Manchester's Victoria Warehouse for another weekend of leftfield culture and heaviness.
Here's a roundup of some the vintage acts making a comeback around San Diego this month, along with some newer bands to keep things fresh.
Japanese band SiM will release the album HOOMAN AFTER ALL via UNFD, with frontman MAH describing it as a tribute to rock's late-nineties and early-2000s era.
A global phenomenon that still heavily influences modern culture today, reggae, and its many sub-genres, has been a pioneering and potent force within music, the arts and politics since it first ...