During the 1960s and early '70s, Trojan Records was the preeminent distributor of Jamaican music in the United Kingdom, issuing more than 3,000 singles there. One hundred of those tracks are compiled ...

Justin Hinds, 62, a Jamaican vocalist and songwriter responsible for dozens of ska and rocksteady hits in the 1960s and 1970s, died of cancer Thursday in his native Steertown, St. Ann’s, in Jamaica.

Whenever I tell someone I dig reggae, I typically get a quizzical look followed by, “Isn't reggae pretty much the same thing over and over again?" Not quite, since one could pretty much say the same ...

Begun by The Specials and other Two-Tone Brits in the early '80s, and continued today by everyone from The Mighty Mighty Bosstones to No Doubt, the so-called "ska revival" has been in progress for so ...

Lloyd Brevett, a renowned double bassist who helped carry ska music from Jamaica to the world as a founding member of the hugely influential band the Skatalites, died Thursday at a Kingston hospital ...

Summer doesn't officially begin until this Sunday, June 21. But it's been a bit hot outside this week (when not raining), and in case you want to get an early start, why not begin with the official ...