Cecil Bustamente Campbell, the Jamaican musician who, as Prince Buster, pioneered ska and rocksteady music, died Thursday, according to the Jamaican Observer. Campbell’s son confirmed his death to the ...

Frederick Nathaniel Hibbert, better known to generations of ska, rocksteady and reggae fans by his nickname Toots as lead singer of the legendary band Toots and the Maytals, died Friday from ...

Ska — that venerable Jamaican-born music — has endured as many ups and downs as the Democratic Party, and right about now it’s just as dead and buried as an avowed McGovernite’s chances of winning a ...

Reggae music became popular in the late 1960s, when young people were excited about it and gravitated to the new sound. The artists were mainly grass-roots people who used their voices to articulate a ...

Phoebe’s Take: The genre of rocksteady, love child of the refreshing island sounds of Caribbean calypso and the soul of American jazz and R&B, makes the body sway, sway, sway. (It’s in the name, you ...

Pick up our exclusive electric blue vinyl variant of the new Mike Park / Catbite split. “We’ve known each other since we were teenagers, just being in the Bay Area,” Mike told us during our recent ...

What is the secret to good reggae? Not just a band of people up onstage hitting a mildly exotic rhythm accented by that familiar rhythm guitar “chank,” but really good, fundamentally solid reggae ...

Soul Ska's Halloween Costume Ball, with Angelo Moore of Fishbone & Epicenter Sound System Formed in 2014, Soul Ska is a Bay Area collective with a fresh take on the classic ska/rocksteady idiom. The ...

Ska has been making its way back into the public consciousness more and more each year, it continues to attract new generations, and there continue to be so many great ska and ska-punk records coming ...

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 ...

Jamaican music producer Clement "Sir Coxsone'' Dodd, an early pioneer of ska, rocksteady and reggae, died on Tuesday of an apparent heart attack. He was 72. In 1963 Dodd opened Studio One, Jamaica's ...

Frederick Nathaniel Hibbert, better known to generations of ska, rocksteady and reggae fans by his nickname Toots as lead singer of the legendary band Toots and the Maytals, died Friday from ...