Hartford will be home to a new music festival this summer. Tickets are on sale now for the inaugural Capital City Music & Beer Festival at Trinity Health Stadium, on July 14 and 15. Stream Connecticut ...

Late one night after his wife and kids were asleep, Scott Aiges started strumming Tom Petty’s “Refugee” on guitar, but with a reggae lilt. A light bulb went off: Wouldn’t it be great for a band to ...

It’s Sept. 25, 1985 at the Palace Theatre in downtown New Haven, Conn., and the buoyant staccato guitar rhythm, breezy sax and distinctly ’80s synth-pop has the crowd footloose. UB40, which has since ...

What a good-humored chop. Major Mackerel, a top Jamaican reggae star from the ‘80s, was briefly hospitalized with cuts to the head and hand after a jealous husband attacked with a two-foot samurai ...

Reggae icon Max Romeo has died. The musician — who's known for hits like "Chase The Devil" and "War Ina Babylon" — passed away after heart complications in Jamaica's Saint Andrew Parish. He was 80.

Reissue label Time Capsule is lining up the release of a compilation featuring Japanese reggae produced in the ’70s and ’80s. The record, titled Tokyo Riddim 1976-1985, "captures the moment J-reggae ...

It's that time of year again: Notting Hill Carnival is fast approaching, and west London is bracing itself as the longest, unruliest tribute to the almighty sound system prepares to hit its streets.

American reggae and pop singer-songwriter Johnny Nash, best known for the 1972 hit I Can See Clearly Now, has died aged 80, his family has said. Nash, whose health had been in decline, died at his ...

That fall at Tipitina’s, they opened for another New Wave reggae band, Talking Dreads. (Aiges had originally considered that same name for his band, before settling on a mash-up of a Jamaican pun and ...

It’s Sept. 25, 1985 at the Palace Theatre in downtown New Haven, Connecticut, and the buoyant staccato guitar rhythm, breezy sax and distinctly ’80s synth-pop has the crowd footloose. UB40, which has ...