Reggae sales slump in 2010 Reggae albums released in 2010 undersold 2009 albums and experts want better marketing to resurrect the industry. The sales were so bad that only three albums released in 2010 made the top 10 selling reggae albums list, according to Billboard data on the US market. The rest of the top [...]

Is reggae music losing its appeal? The Makumbusho Village was the venue for the Explosive Zion show in Dar es Salaam a few weeks ago. The event was a cultural blend as people from different walks of life came to celebrate reggae music in Dar es Salaam. The multi cultural gathering told a story of [...]

Marley family hoping to create licensing empire Stir it up, Bob Marley fans — it’s organic and ecologically sustainable. That’s what the descendants of the legendary reggae singer are telling fans as they launch a new coffee brand along with a host of other licensed products, including clothing, sporting goods and electronics.

Toots and the Maytals at Bayside Rocks Festival Out of ska and rocksteady, a new kind of Jamaican music sprung up during the late ’60s. It was a hypnotic, midtempo mix of simple, slightly off-balance beats and repetitive riffs. And Frederick “Toots” Hibbert, along with others such as Bob Marley and Bunny Wailer, was one [...]

Jamaican State Funeral for Reggae Singer Gregory Isaacs, the ‘Cool Ruler’ Unless you’re a reggae devotee, you might have assumed that the heyday of Jamaica’s most famous music ended with the death of the legendary Bob Marley in 1981. After that, Marley’s elegance seemed to have been overtaken by the louder and often lewder strains [...]

Reggae star Buju Banton free on bail Reggae star Buju Banton has been granted bail by an immigration court in Florida while he awaits a retrial on drug charges. The Jamaican was released from jail after Bob Marley’s son, Stephen, put up his own $300,000 (£186,000) home as collateral.

Museum to showcase UK reggae history The history of reggae music in Britain is being revisited by London’s Hackney Museum through a photo exhibition and two films. ‘Reggae Rebels’ is the title of the exhibition, which opened in September and is scheduled to close in early January. It features the work of photographer Dennis Morris, [...]

Reggae Legend Gregory Isaacs Dead at 59 Gregory Isaacs — one of the most popular and versatile reggae singers of the late-Seventies, and the smooth-voiced dancehall crooner behind the genre’s landmark 1982 LP Night Nurse — passed away this morning at his London home following a year-long battle with lung cancer, the BBC reports. Isaacs [...]

Reggae Star Gregory Isaacs Dies at 59 Reggae singer Gregory Isaacs has died at his London home aged 59 after a lengthy battle with cancer. His family was with him until the end. Best known for his 1982 hit, ‘Night Nurse’, Isaacs’ smoother style of reggae epitomised the Lovers Rock sub-genre but he’d been recording [...]

Bail conditions proposed for reggae star Buju Banton If internationally known reggae star Buju Banton wants to get out of jail before his retrial on cocaine conspiracy charges, it won’t be cheap. To make bail, Banton would have to post $250,000 — secured by the equity in a friend’s house — wear an electronic monitor [...]