Pop culture can be as forbidding as it is inviting, particularly in areas that invite geeky obsession: The more devotion a genre, series, or subculture inspires, the easier it is for the uninitiated ...

Check out George Varga’s new blog online: uniontrib.com/popoff. You can e-mail him at [email protected]. If my memory and minimal mathematical abilities ...

The lovingly conceived, brilliantly executed, multi-platform Rocksteady: The Roots Of Reggae aims to achieve the same sort of museum piece-to-modernity transformation for Jamaican rocksteady that ...

A new documentary series is spotlighting the deep connection between reggae music and local culture in Hawai‘i. In Hawaiian Hands: The Story of Reggae in Hawai‘i is a three-part series from PBS ...

On the surface, reggae seems as relaxing as a cool drink on a hot summer day. But if you listen closely, you'll find there's more to it than that, says Roots Almighty frontman Jesus Martinez. "At ...

Go to most any venue or concert in town, and you may find yourself feeling some serious reggae vibes. Reggae originated in Jamaica in the 1960s and has long been looked at in the U.S. as beach music ...

Eric Rachmany was working the night shift in the Music Department office of Santa Barbara City College, all alone and bored except for the positive vibration coming from his computer, which was ...

And so it was with the reggae edition (part of the Reggae Britannia season), which took a brisk 90-minute march from reggae's arrival in Britain from Jamaica in the Sixties to the point where it ...

Last summer the New York Times reported that Grammy-nominated reggae star Chronixx told a crowd during one of his electric performances: “This is the beautiful sound of reggae music from the island of ...

Live bands. Soulful music. Substantive lyrics. I could be describing the Jamaican music scene circa 1976, the heyday of Bob Marley. But I'm talking about a sound that dominated at this year's Reggae ...