NEW YORK — In the insular, Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Crown Heights in Brooklyn, members of the Hasidic religious group rarely mingle with outsiders. So it’s understandable that a young Hasidic ...

Matisyahu, the Hasidic reggae singer, only recently found his way to Jamaica — the wellspring for his chosen form of music. “Not to offer stereotypes,” he says, “but the guy who was fixing the light ...

As the excitement builds for the upcoming Grammy Awards, the spotlight shines brightly on the Best Reggae Album category, ...

“World music” is an impossibly vague and imprecise term that raises more questions than it answers. But for vocalist, keyboardist and producer Lamine Fellah, “world music” neatly sums up the ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica —While visiting the United Kingdom last year, singer Shemeika attended a service at her cousin Pastor Patrick Dawkins’ church in Derby, central England. She was struck by a song one ...

Any Floridian with a cynical bone in his or her body will admit that reggae can be a bit much sometimes. The genre, which slowly crept out of Jamaica in the 1960s before exploding on a worldwide stage ...

Fitting in with Friday night’s Slightly Stoopid performance at Harveys Outdoor Arena is Saturday’s gig at Whiskey Dick’s Saloon featuring Huntington Beach-based Special Blend. “Difficult to define, ...

The South Asian art form known as Sufi music has a centuries old tradition built on poetry and mysticism coupled with specific instruments, meters and repetition. Brooklyn-based Pakistani musician ...

Their frontman may be from Jamaica, but local reggae band Uprising is hardly traditional. Dexter Baxter doesn't consider himself a musician. He considers himself a decent singer. But mostly, Baxter is ...

Spiritual Rez is the reggae band with a lead singer/lyricist from Milford, a pedigree from Berklee College of Music, and roots in a Hawaii funk group. So it shouldn’t really be a surprise that their ...