Last month, the twenty-two-year-old Jamaican singer and rapper Koffee appeared as a musical guest on the “Tonight Show.” The studio’s stage had been outfitted to look like a casual and haphazard dance ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Famous reggae rhythm section and producing team Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare. (Credit: Lynn Goldsmith/Corbis/VCG via Getty ...

Songs of the summer should be crowned not in the giddiness of July but in the waning days of September, once the hot season has finished its business. A rearview perspective suggests that “Toast,” by ...

In June 1964, a country music fan in Jamaica who regularly listened to Nashville’s 50,000-watt radio station WSM sent a letter to the editor of Billboard, who proclaimed it the first such ...