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 ...

put together a string of hits in Jamaica and Britain through the `80s, and his crisply produced mix of pop, dancehall, conscious and lover`s reggae could open more doors in the `90s.

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 ...

Jamaican dancehall 101 As a pop-culture-consuming whole, Americans have a strange relationship with Jamaican dancehall. Although it’s one of the most important and prolific music scenes in the ...

Before I was even a conception, borne of a night scored by ‘80s lover’s rock, VP was synonymous with all things reggae—not only in what it represented for Jamaican music and culture, but ...

When we first became a reggae band there was lots of vintage Jamaican American music that we fell in love with, basically the entire range from late-’50s ska to modern dancehall.

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.

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.