The Classic Restaurant and Lounge has had a year to make a name for itself and appears to have taken full advantage of that time. Since it opened in April 1987, patrons say, the club has moved ...

Hours later, I return home still wondering about this whole reggae dancing thing. Surely there's an authority out there somewhere. I fire up my Internet browser, and search Google for "how to dance to ...

Exactly 40 years ago, reggae legend Jimmy Cliff was introduced to the wide world as the hard-scrabble country boy Ivan Martin in the Jamaican crime film “The Harder They Come.” The movie (now revered ...

U.K. production company Xingu Films, Canada’s Conquering Lion and Jamaican producer Justine Henzell are uniting to remake 1972 Jamaican classic, “The Harder They Come,” which starred reggae legend ...

At its core, Jamaican music culture is a project of self-determination. Reggae emerged in the ‘60s and ‘70s out of political protest, disenfranchisement, and social change in Jamaica. As the Jamaican ...

Hands are the primary tools of most DJs. So when Scott Damnit‘s stopped working, things looked grim. “After my surgeries, my hands were about as useful as chicken cutlets,” says Damnit, the founder of ...

Hard to believe that it has been 40 years since Klymaxx first had partygoers slow dancing to I Miss You, a monster hit single from their album, Meeting In The Ladies Room. Reggae singer Empress Uneek ...

Simply put, reggae as a global phenomenon begins with The Harder They Come. Before most people outside Jamaica could tell you who Bob Marley was, Cliff put the world on notice that something explosive ...