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Reggae

August 2024

  • Vybz Kartel performing in 2005.

    Jamaican dancehall star Vybz Kartel released from prison after 13 years

    Court of appeal rules against a retrial for artist convicted of murder in 2014

July 2024

  • Crossover hit … from left, Brinsley Forde, Drummie Zeb and Tony Robinson in 1988.

    How we made
    ‘I thought the chorus was wicked’: Aswad on how they made Don’t Turn Around

    ‘Top of the Pops showed our video at the end of one show – just as millions of people were tuning in for EastEnders. Soon after, we went to No 1’

June 2024

  • Don Drummond.

    ‘He was greater than Bob Marley’: the shocking tale of Jamaican ska pioneer Don Drummond

    Inspired by a boxing, DJing nun, the trombonist laid down the foundations of reggae – but he also had schizophrenia and killed his girlfriend, Jamaica’s ‘rhumba queen’ Margarita. A new graphic novel retells their stories
  • Burna Boy, Little Simz and Camila Cabello, three of the major stars playing Glastonbury this year.

    From African stars to British stalwarts, Glastonbury 2024 opens gates to a truly diverse lineup

    With the BBC livestreaming globally for the first time, and an especially rich lineup of Black artists, 2024’s festival champions a broad remit – but plays it safe with Coldplay
  • The Cimarons performing at the Rainbow theatre, Finsbury Park, 24 October 1979

    ‘The way they’ve been exploited is obscene’: the untold story of forgotten UK reggae heroes Cimarons

    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?

April 2024

  • A man and two children sit on a wall with a wall of speakers to their left

    Young researchers need greater access to Britain’s rich archives, says curator

  • Lyrical adventurer … Central Cee’s freestyles have been influential in spreading new slang.

    Bait, ting, certi: how UK rap changed the language of the nation

March 2024

  • School of rock? … (L-R) Little Richard, Joanna Newsom and Metallica.

    Pop! goes the curriculum: songs to inspire primary school children

    Keir Starmer is on a personal mission to promote music to the under-11s. From rock’n’roll to Jonathan Richman, our writers suggest songs for an alternative schooling
  • Vybz Kartel.

    Jamaican musician Vybz Kartel has murder conviction quashed

    Dancehall star was sentenced to life in prison in 2014 for the murder of an associate
  • Poster designs for Black gay club culture in London

    The Audio Long Read
    ‘Good times and dances might last for ever’: the sound of London’s Black gay scene – podcast

    For many Black gay men in 1980s and 90s Britain, nightlife was community, family and lifeline – but its history is in danger of disappearing. By Jason Okundaye

February 2024

  • collage of Flyers for Black gay club nights in London in the 1990s

    The long read
    ‘Good times and dances might last for ever’: the sound of London’s Black gay scene

  • Kingsley Ben-Adir in Bob Marley: One Love.

    Bob Marley: One Love review – the reggae superstar deserves a better film than this

  • Bob Marley

    Bob Marley’s penchant for punk

  • Kingsley Ben-Adir as Bob Marley in One Love

    ‘We will not accept fake Patois’: Jamaican linguist on dialogue in Bob Marley biopic

  • Bob Marley by Dennis Morris – in pictures

  • ‘Firebrand, poet and heart-throb’: how the film One Love captures the truth about Bob Marley

  • Bob Marley: One Love review – reverential biopic of reggae superstar struggles to stir it up

  • Aston ‘Family Man’ Barrett obituary

  • Aston ‘Family Man’ Barrett, bassist with Bob Marley and the Wailers, dies aged 77

  • Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry: King Perry review – dub legend’s playful embrace of death

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