Before Kartel, Lila Iké, Keznamdi, Jesse Royal and Mortimer face off for the 2026 best reggae album Grammy, check out Billboard’s ranking of the 10 Best Caribbean Albums of 2025.

Legendary British reggae-pop group UB40 is celebrating its 47th anniversary with a global tour and a brand-new album, and the band will be bringing the party to Wolf Trap on Aug. 31 at 8 p.m. With ...

After years of performing with Maoli, the Maui reggae band he founded, Glenn Awong says he likes to “keep fans on their toes.” The Na Hoku Hanohano Award-winning band will perform at the Maui Arts & ...

Whatever mood you're in, contemporary reggae has a tune for you. That's because Jamaican music is a study in contrasts: Songs veer from sacred to profane, sexy to spiritual, blisteringly aggressive to ...

Jimmy Cliff, the iconic reggae star who helped transform the island's rhythmic music into a global cultural phenomenon, has died, his wife said Monday. He was 81. The family announced the death in a ...

From the mighty dub lyricism of Linton Kwesi Johnson to the magnetic female empowerment of Etana, reggae artists have long lifted and motivated listeners with potent perspectives on resistance, ...

McKenna takes us on a virtual holoholo to Maui to Talk Story with Reggae singer-songwriter Glenn Awong of Maoli. It has been a big year for this popular Island Reggae group from Maui, winning the 2020 ...

Reggae music became popular in the late 1960s, when young people were excited about it and gravitated to the new sound. The artists were mainly grass-roots people who used their voices to articulate a ...

In 2011, Jamaican writer and activist Dutty Bookman coined the phrase “reggae revival” to describe artists like Protoje, Chronixx, Jah9, Kabaka Pyramid, Jesse Royal, and others who tended to favor ...

Edward “Bunny” Lee — the influential producer who both expanded reggae‘s sound and helped proliferate the genre’s audience worldwide — has died at the age of 79. Trojan Records, which licensed Lee’s ...

Unless you’re a reggae devotee, you might have assumed that the heyday of Jamaica’s most famous music ended with the death of the legendary Bob Marley in 1981. After that, Marley’s elegance seemed to ...