Ska — that venerable Jamaican-born music — has endured as many ups and downs as the Democratic Party, and right about now it’s just as dead and buried as an avowed McGovernite’s chances of winning a ...

Cecil Bustamente Campbell, the Jamaican musician who, as Prince Buster, pioneered ska and rocksteady music, died Thursday, according to the Jamaican Observer. Campbell’s son confirmed his death to the ...

Phoebe’s Take: The genre of rocksteady, love child of the refreshing island sounds of Caribbean calypso and the soul of American jazz and R&B, makes the body sway, sway, sway. (It’s in the name, you ...

The AC30’s are back! With a set list comprising of The Blues Busters, Pluto Shervington, The Skatalites, Prince Buster, John Holt, Max Romeo, Ken Boothe, Jimmy Cliff, Alton Ellis, Toots and The ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Minister Bartlett will be a guest speaker at the launch event for the 1st Annual One World Ska & Rocksteady Music Festival. KINGSTON, Jamaica – Minister Bartlett will be a guest ...

Calypsonian, ska and rocksteady artiste Lord Creator has died. He was 87. “He died at 11am. He hadn’t been feeling well for some time,” Neseline Patrick, Lord Creator’s wife, said. The artiste, given ...

Reggae music became popular in the late 1960s, when young people were excited about it and gravitated to the new sound. The artists were mainly grass-roots people who used their voices to articulate a ...

Tourism Minister Ed Bartlett and his culture and entertainment counterpart, Olivia ‘Babsy’ Grange, have called for more Jamaican entertainment events with international appeal. The joint statement was ...

Eight piece Ska band PorkPie Live plus SKA, Rocksteady & Reggae DJs at Reconnect Regal Theatre, Bathgate performing classics from The Specials, Bad Manners, Madness, The Beat, etc, the list goes on ...

Jamaican singer-songwriter and producer Prince Buster has died Larry Ellis/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Twitter tributes have poured in for pioneering reggae singer, songwriter and ...