Catch a Fire: How Reggae and Dancehall Scorched the US. Part Two: The ’80s to mid ’90s By: Grouchy Greg Watkins (@GrouchyGreg) Category: Alternatives June 12, 2008 ...

Dancehall reggae certainly has benefited from today`s broad-based ... a gritty and intelligent guitar band that gave some spark to the early-`80s L.A. rock scene with songs like ”The Medicine ...

Instead, what eventually revived the moribund genre of mid-'80s reggae was not a man but a machine. The first reggae dancehall track was recorded in 1985.

WHEN “Dutty Rock,” the 2002 dancehall reggae album by Sean Paul, went double platinum, Shaggy’s reputation took a beating. Though Shaggy has outsold any other dancehall act, reggae fans ...

But I listen to a lot of older reggae, ... from doing straight-up rocksteady with the song “Argumental” to British lover’s rock with “Which Way” to ’80s dancehall with “Make Up Your ...

The album artwork of Wilfred Limonious Falling somewhere between illustrator, cartoonist, and outsider artist, Wilfred Limonious was the seminal album-cover designer for early-80s Jamaican LPs.

VP Records: The House That Reggae (and Dancehall) Built 2019 not only marks the end of a decade, but also the label’s 40-year commitment to bringing Jamaican music to the world.

Sugar Minott, a popular Jamaican singer whose joyful, lilting voice bridged four decades of transformation in reggae music, died Saturday in Kingston, the nation’s capital. He was 54.