Jah Shaka, the London roots reggae artist who inspired legions of acts across genres, has died. His management confirmed his death on Wednesday, 12th April, and did not provide a cause of death. Jah ...

A reggae enthusiast has said digitising and publishing live recordings of sound systems from the 1970s and 1980s will help preserve the genre's history. The sound systems movement saw huge banks of ...

61 years ago, a man named Duke Vin stowed away on a boat from Kingston to London. In Jamaica, he’d been a selector, spinning records on a prominent reggae sound system—a truck loaded with a generator, ...

Reggae sound systems King Shine Sound and Twin Star International will rest their reputations on the line when they lock horns in the first international sound clash in Bermuda in nearly two decades ...

Since their inception in the late 200s, Dave Mata and his DJ crew, the six-member Impala Sound Champions, have held on to the dream of building a massive traveling sound system like the ones that ...

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

Sergio Ortiz is a soft-spoken teacher in San Antonio College’s music business program. But as the reggae artist Sgt. Remo, he makes some serious noise with a wall of speakers that looks like ...

From your first dance to your last, The Standard has your guide to all the after parties and sound systems at Notting Hill Carnival ...

For Christopher Ellis, Jamaica’s sound system culture isn’t simply the inspiration behind his latest single — it’s part of his earliest musical memories. The reggae singer has released My Sound, an ...

What began as a group chat on social media has evolved into a fully blown movement to revive the reggae dancehall culture in Bermuda. Local reggae artist Junior C, whose song Murderer reached number ...