The Plant's last two albums (Bush Rock and 10 Deadly Shots, Vol. 1) have convinced me that they are the U.S.'s premiere instrumental reggae...

Greensleeves' Most Wanted series has benefited from the company's purchase by VP Records, as it now has a larger vault from which to choose...

This aging mento band were in danger of becoming a footnote in Jamaican music history, but, thanks to Geejam producer Jon Baker, the Jolly B...

Dub traditionally was the realm of producers and engineers with Magico-techno smarts harnessing tape delays and reverb washes, but here it h...

Initially released digitally in 2009 with little pomp, Wonder's record was quickly reissued to promote the artist further a field. A little...

Their fifth album sees these road warriors doing a minor gearshift, dropping tempos and putting more emphasis on their instrumentals. Record...

Continuing the tradition of DC-styled animated album covers, Dance & Sweep presents the Energy God as a superhero on a mission to bring danc...

Toronto, ON's Prince Perry transports listeners back to the heyday of the two-Tone era with this EP, and while the record isn't exactly an e...

I bought a Messenjah album on vinyl last year; it blew my head off. They're like an Ontario version of Steel Pulse. Odel Johnson drummed for...

Great art comes out of great struggle, so the cliché goes. In Michael Franti's case, a taste of mortality (his appendix burst while o...

Jam Down, which was shot in 1980, but only released in France, bills itself as "a musical journey into the heart of Jamaica's 1980 roots reg...

Some people, it's often said, can sing the phone book and make it art; Lee Perry is not one of them, despite the fact that at one point here...

The recording sessions for Montreal's the Beatdown ― a band that emerged out of the One Night Band ― must have went something li...

You could argue that Putumayo has erased any incendiary residue from the king of reggae and replaced it with a smiling face, a sun-swept bea...

Ghanaian reggae singer Rocky Dawuni is a freedom fighter for the modern age; his revolution is fought not only in studio and on stage, but,...

Jazz singer, keyboardist and guitarist Carmen Souza has been lauded for her expressive style and vocal command. With Protegit, her third rel...

Yes, Russians can skank too. Get ready for the funnest album of the summer. If Benny Hill ever recorded a long lost rocksteady record, it wo...

Already a formidable force on the national reggae scene, Jah Cutta's third album finds the singer/deejay better than ever. Easy, bubbling ro...

Positive vibrations are the order of the day on this hard-hitting reggae disc. With the lion-mane sporting Friendlyness chanting goodness ov...

Joe Strummer's love of reggae and dub are celebrated here, with several artists taking a stab at versioning some of the hallowed Clash canon...