This Saturday at Caribbean Village, DJ Indiana Jones and his longtime musical collaborator DJ Danger will be participating in Indy's first Jamaican-style DJ sound clash. Jones, a.k.a Ron Miner, has ...

Billboard-charting DJ and producer Walsh Fire of the multi-platinum charting EDM act Major Lazer has joined the lineup for ...

In the 1990s, the idea of the Jamaican soundclash – a fierce sound battle between rival soundsystems – took off around the world, from the Caribbean to the US, Japan to Scandinavia. A series of World ...

DJ Snow, co-producer of the song Tek What Is Not Yours, is hoping it will bring closure to three years of an intense search for his twin brother. “I have been searching for my brother for years now ...

OPINION: Originating from Jamaica, the sound clash was an inspiring agent of hip-hop, breeding a culture of competition in contemporary Black music that still resonates today. On a brisk evening in ...

Jamaica is reggae HQ. But around the world, the genre has spread — and its sound has mixed with other genres and fresh voices. In this week's Here & Now DJ Session, host Jeremy Hobson speaks with ...

With coronavirus restrictions and innovations in communications technology, the Jamaica College Old Boys Association of South Florida is sharing the virtual “True Blue Sound Clash” with the world next ...

In 1955, Duke Vin, a sharply dressed and entrepreneurial British Rail employee in west London, who had arrived from Kingston, Jamaica just a year earlier, built his first sound system. It was a ...

We wrap musical genres around us as personal identifiers, like the plastic bracelets folded around newborns’ wrists. Their grooves become as familiar to us as our own heartbeat. So, to some steeped in ...

U-Roy, the influential reggae artist who specialized in the art of toasting and whose style became a key precursor in the early development of hip-hop, has died at the age of 78. The singer and ...