Courtney Barnett teams with Waxahatchee for the guitar-driven second single off her upcoming album Creature of Habit. Complete with a music video, “Site Unseen” finds the pairing visually in a ...

City Cat Radio, the weekly radio program of Oakland’s own DJ/Producer/Engineer DJ HENROC, is designed to celebrate plain old good music including Soul, Roots, Reggae, Dancehall, Soca, Afro Beat, Funk, ...

Legendary Jamaican musician, songwriter and actor Jimmy Cliff, has died at 81. Cliff’s wife, Latifa Chambers, shared the news of his death from a “seizure followed by pneumonia" on Instagram Monday, ...

The band currently dominating the Billboard Reggae Album Chart with three releases has a new record arriving in November. Its rise is supported by the independent Ineffable Music Group. LONG BEACH, CA ...

Leeds native George Evelyn formed Nightmares On Wax in the late ‘80s in a scene teeming with hip-hop and b-boy culture. He got his start dancing before eventually beginning to DJ. Eventually, Evelyn ...

More than 200 performances by national artists, local bands and family entertainers will hit downtown Royal Oak this weekend for the 2025 edition of Arts, Beats & Eats, traditionally the biggest Labor ...

Here are the albums with the longest runs at No. 1 on Billboard's Catalog Albums chart from 1991 to the present.

Ever since 1978, UB40 has been a steady global music presence preaching the reggae-pop gospel. The United Kingdom natives marked the band’s 45th anniversary in 2023 and has further celebrated this ...

A new reissue marks the 40th anniversary of “Under Me Sleng Teng,” considered one of dancehall’s first digital songs and, with over 500 versions, among the most recycled. By Patricia Meschino In 1984, ...

A genre-crossing lineup that includes pop-rock band Sugar Ray, country singer Randy Houser, rock band Hoobastank, hard rock group Rival Sons and rapper Vanilla Ice will lead the national stage at this ...

Nectar’s closing for the summer isn’t a blow only to the local music scene. The area will also deal with the fallout from losing popular events and series that the club hosted. What will become of the ...

Bouncing offbeat bursts of chordal horns, guitar and keys counterpoint walking bass lines as the high hat skips around the shuffling drum beat, accenting African and Caribbean rhythms. The ska is an ...