Derrick Morgan is a legend — a rougher than rough, tougher than tough, onetime rude boy who helped shape the sound of ska in the 1960s. Singing braggadocious tunes and loving duets for more than 60 ...

The grand maestro of Jamaican music: Carlos Malcolm at Steakhouse Studios in Los Angeles. (Credit: Bernadette Madden) Carlos Malcolm may not be a household name, but it should be. Without this now ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Ska pioneer and Jamaican music legend Prince Buster has died at 78, several years after suffering a stroke, his wife Mola Ali said Friday. Born Cecil Bustamante Campbell ...

AFA copy 39088019752104 gift from Janet Stanley. Roots -- Reggae, Rastafarianism and Cultural Identity / Verena Reckord -- from "Reggae, Rastafarians and Revolution: Rock Music in the Third World" / ...

In 1992 — well after ska music’s 2 Tone era — no one could’ve told The Miggedys lead singer Tricia Lynn Gonzales there was a seedy underbelly to the music that saved her world. She was 17, and the ...

DESMOND DEKKER, the first international star of Jamaican ska and rocksteady music, died of a heart attack in late May at the age of 64. Before Bob Marley made reggae music into a world phenomenon in ...

Brad Klein is standing in the glass doorway at World Street Kitchen in south Minneapolis, on his cellphone, smoothing things over. The 52-year-old Minneapolis native is used to doing that — he's a ...

Apr. 21—Don't call Mephiskapheles ska-punk. The band, headlining eSKApe at Yellow Cab Tavern in Dayton on Sunday, April 23, brings a certain hardcore intensity but the music is more complex. Since ...

LONDON - Desmond Dekker, who brought the sound of Jamaican ska music to the world with songs such as "Israelites," has died, his manager said Friday. He was 64. Dekker, who lived in England, collapsed ...

February marks National Reggae Month — a time to celebrate the rich anthology of Jamaican music and honor the birthdays of late icons Dennis Brown and Bob Marley. The festival will include dancers ...

Carlos Malcolm may not be a household name, but it should be. Without this now 90-year-old innovator of Jamaican music—this composer, this trombonist, this conductor, this arranger, this director—we ...