You're in for a pre-Thanksgiving treat. Yesterday, I posted on a 1964 Jamaican mini documentary on ska, the island's dominant dance music of the early 1960s. Today. I found a high-resolution print of ...

And so it was with the reggae edition (part of the Reggae Britannia season), which took a brisk 90-minute march from reggae's arrival in Britain from Jamaica in the Sixties to the point where it ...

Ken Boothe was one of the most popular and soulful singers of the rocksteady era, arguably second only to Alton Ellis. Where Ellis was silky smooth, Boothe’s vocals were deeper and grittier, earning ...

In this lush documentary, director Stascha Bader travels to Kingston, Jamaica, to study a late-'60s musical style known as rocksteady, a predecessor to the reggae sound that eventually evolved into ...

"Music is the universal language", in the words of Jimmy Cliff, the legendary Jamaican singer who paved the way for reggae "rebel" Bob Marley and popularised reggae, ska and rocksteady music over a ...

With 2026 marking the 60th year since the birth of rocksteady, not many of that genre’s stars are still around. Keith and Tex ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — One of the founders of a leading Jamaican reggae and rocksteady trio from the 1960s has died. A bandmate says Barry Llewellyn of the Heptones died Wednesday at age 64. Lead ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — For decades, the sound of Jamaica has been reggae, the infectious, uniquely syncopated music that transformed the small Caribbean island into a cultural powerhouse. But the ...

People Rocksteady; Sounds & Pressure; Silent River Runs Deep; Stop That Train; Freedom Street; Tougher Than Tough; You Don't Love Me (No No No); Love Me Today; Rivers Of Babylon; Shanty Town (007); ...

This music documentary transports viewers back to the Rocksteady era. Musicians from the time reunite for the first time in 40 years to revive their brilliant sound. The experience is enriched with ...