The Expanders take pains to duplicate the sounds of classic Jamaican music using old tube guitar amps, vintage organs, and Leslie speakers, but there’s some irony in doing so, according to rhythm ...

Hands are the primary tools of most DJs. So when Scott Damnit‘s stopped working, things looked grim. “After my surgeries, my hands were about as useful as chicken cutlets,” says Damnit, the founder of ...

How a retro reggae band crafted a triumphant Daptone Records debut, all while racing against the most intimidating deadline possible. "That's frickin' sick!" At the moment when Dan Klein, singer of ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Having started his career as a six-year-old at producer Clement Dodd’s Studio One over 50 years ago, singer Freddie McGregor has an enduring respect for reggae’s elders. His latest ...

ELECTRONICA/REGGAE selector DJ Afifa urged a mostly revisionist university reggae music symposium last Friday to stop reminiscing about vintage reggae and look to modern reggae fusions. DJ Afifa, born ...

It is a family story that weaves reggae, roots and Dundee jute with Scottish and Jamaican identity. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the ...

At the moment when Dan Klein, singer of the retro reggae outfit the Frightnrs, saw the finished cover of his band's first full-length album, Nothing More to Say, he was sitting in his apartment in ...