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 ...

You're in for a pre-Thanksgiving treat. Yesterday, I posted on a 1964 Jamaican mini documentary on ska, the island's dominant dance music of the early 1960s. Today. I found a high-resolution print of ...

And so it was with the reggae edition (part of the Reggae Britannia season), which took a brisk 90-minute march from reggae's arrival in Britain from Jamaica in the Sixties to the point where it ...

On some days, the Kitchenette, a group of seven UCLA musicians, can be heard cooking up covers of reggae hits or rehearsing original rocksteady and ska-influenced melodies in Schoenberg Hall. On ...

From KCRW DJ Jeremy Sole: The days are longer and the weather is hotter, people it’s Reggae time once again in Los Angeles! It’s an honor being the annual host of Reggae NightHollywood Bowl at the as ...

Performing as Keith & Tex, singing duo Keith Rowe and Phillip “Tex” Dixon hit it big in Jamaica in 1967 with their rocksteady anthem, “Stop That Train,” popularizing a song first recorded two years ...

Ken Boothe was one of the most popular and soulful singers of the rocksteady era, arguably second only to Alton Ellis. Where Ellis was silky smooth, Boothe’s vocals were deeper and grittier, earning ...

Featuring Hopeton Lewis, Judy Mowatt, Stranger Cole, Marcia Griffiths, Dawn Penn, Lynn Taitt, Ken Boothe, Derrick Morgan, Leroy Sibbles, U-Roy, the Tamlins, Rita ...

Eight piece Ska band PorkPie Live plus SKA, Rocksteady & Reggae DJs at Reconnect Regal Theatre, Bathgate performing classics from The Specials, Bad Manners, Madness, The Beat, etc, the list goes on ...

And so it was with the reggae edition (part of the Reggae Britannia season), which took a brisk 90-minute march from reggae's arrival in Britain from Jamaica in the Sixties to the point where it ...

The Roots of Reggae is a musical journey to Jamaica's Golden Age of music, Rocksteady. The film features the music and stories of the legendary singers and musicians of the Rocksteady era. They come ...