With the Beatles a thing of the past and the counterculture revolution aging into different forms of expression, rock music in the 1970s evolved into an even more sophisticated and album-oriented art ...

The 1970s were a wild time for American music. Disco happened, punk happened, reggae showed up in the U.S. again and stayed a long time, inspiring a burgeoning ska scene, and glam and metal bands made ...

On 16 July 1972, the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill hosted what would become a landmark moment in music history – what is ...

While Atlanta was still in its funk era in the 1970s, reggae and dancehall music began to gain popularity in New York, where they would be infused with round-the-way rap to form hip-hop. For example, ...

Reggae's no different from other struggling genres: Promoters need to invoke the name of a legend, in this case Bob Marley, to attract a good-sized crowd. On a busman's holiday from their own solo ...

Jamaica and Ethiopia have long-standing cultural ties. Rastafarians believe that the late Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie was actually the second coming of the Messiah, and since the 1970s, reggae ...

Here’s one more reason to love Black History Month: It coincides with Reggae Month, a global celebration of the music and culture deemed an “an intangible cultural heritage” by UNESCO. In 2008, ...

Nineteen categories will be contested at the second Reggae North Music Awards (RNMA) which takes place on September 28 at ...