Mento is the name given to Jamaican folk music that emerged in the 1940s and 1950s. Similar to Calypso, which originated in ...

LEGACY IS something that is handed down from one generation to the next, and Reggae Fraternity UK (RFUK) are honouring our British Reggae legacy, with a night of good music and celebration. On Sunday ...

Cimarons, the UK’s first reggae band, played with Jimmy Cliff and Bob Marley but barely made a penny; this heartwarming film follows their first gig in 30 years The UK’s first reggae band deserves all ...

Reggae has been part of Jamaica’s ‘starting gun’, given voice to Rastafarianism and fired up crowds from Trench Town to Yokohama. Yet when Earl Gateshead, one of the pioneers of the UK scene, found ...

Reggae was born in Jamaica, but it found a second home in the UK – the result of waves of post-war Caribbean migration, and the curatorial ambitions of labels like Chris Blackwell’s Island Records, ...

BRITISH REGGAE pioneer and singer, Delroy Washington, one of the first artists to be signed to major record companies such CBS, Island and Virgin, has passed away in London on Friday, March 27 after a ...

They were the UK’s first reggae band and played with everyone from Bob Marley to Paul McCartney. So how have such an influential group been so overlooked? When Locksley Gichie arrived in England in ...

Lovers Rock, a part of the Small Axe anthology, which comprises of five original films by Academy Award, BAFTA and Golden Globe-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen, aired via BBC One on Sunday. An ode to ...

Live albums are more important than ever in this concert-less year, and if you haven’t heard it already, we’d like to turn your attention to Live At Electric Brixton, the recently released live album ...

A popular reggae roots artist has lost his life having caught the coronavirus, his friends and colleagues announced on social media. London based Douglas Sparks, who went by the stage name of UK ...

Hong Kong International Reggae Ska Festival planner Paul Thompson shares why the city jives with Jamaican music and 2026’s ...