Derrick Morgan is a legend — a rougher than rough, tougher than tough, onetime rude boy who helped shape the sound of ska in the 1960s. Singing braggadocious tunes and loving duets for more than 60 ...

The grand maestro of Jamaican music: Carlos Malcolm at Steakhouse Studios in Los Angeles. (Credit: Bernadette Madden) Carlos Malcolm may not be a household name, but it should be. Without this now ...

The fans who pushed Desmond Dekker’s “Israelites” to the top of the pop charts in 1968 and 1969 had no firsthand experience with the social conditions in Jamaica that gave rise to the lyrics. They did ...

DESMOND DEKKER, the first international star of Jamaican ska and rocksteady music, died of a heart attack in late May at the age of 64. Before Bob Marley made reggae music into a world phenomenon in ...

Brad Klein is standing in the glass doorway at World Street Kitchen in south Minneapolis, on his cellphone, smoothing things over. The 52-year-old Minneapolis native is used to doing that — he's a ...

In 1992 — well after ska music’s 2 Tone era — no one could’ve told The Miggedys lead singer Tricia Lynn Gonzales there was a seedy underbelly to the music that saved her world. She was 17, and the ...

Desmond Dekker, the Jamaican singer whose 1969 hit, "The Israelites," opened up a worldwide audience for reggae, died on Wednesday. He was 64. He died after collapsing from a heart attack in his home ...

AFA copy 39088019752104 gift from Janet Stanley. Roots -- Reggae, Rastafarianism and Cultural Identity / Verena Reckord -- from "Reggae, Rastafarians and Revolution: Rock Music in the Third World" / ...

A new generation of ska-punk bands has a message for you, Rudy, and it’s all about unity. Embracing the 80s British ska scene’s politically charged idealism while taking musical inspiration from 90s ...

Carlos Malcolm may not be a household name, but it should be. Without this now 90-year-old innovator of Jamaican music—this composer, this trombonist, this conductor, this arranger, this director—we ...