To honor the first anniversary of the passing of reggae legend and dub pioneer Lee “Scratch” Perry Trojan Records is releasing a comprehensive box set, King Scratch (Musical Masterpieces from the ...

No small country has packed a musical punch like Jamaica has. From Bob Marley to Buju Banton, here are its standout records ...

Aston Francis “Family Man” Barrett, the reggae bassist who rose to fame with Lee “Scratch” Perry’s Upsetters and played on Bob Marley’s biggest hits, died at a Florida hospital on February 3 after a ...

Genres like trip-hop, dubstep and drum'n'bass can all be traced back to a subgenre of reggae music known as dub. At its most reductive, dub music breathed — and continues to breathe — new, exciting ...

GUITARIST Alva ‘Reggie’ Lewis, a member of the influential Hippy Boys and Upsetters bands of the 1960s, died February 4 at age 63. Lorna Wainwright of the Tuff Gong Group of Companies told the Jamaica ...