This winter proved to be an unseasonably hot one on the Billboard charts. Dancehall reggae stars Sean Paul and Wayne Wonder blazed their way into the American pop mainstream with authentic, sizzling ...

The FADER's longstanding series Beat Construction interviews crucial music producers. Tarik Johnston doesn’t want to be held back by genre. Recording as Rvssian, the Jamaican producer is best known ...

This is the eighth in a 10-part series looking at the impact of dancehall/reggae culture around the world. ANDREAS Nilson has produced a number of hit songs and ‘riddims’ which have impacted dancehall ...

Compiling a guide to all of dancehall and picking only a few songs is a hard a task for mortal men, so I decided instead to focus on dancehall rhythms. A rhythm—or “riddim”—is an instrumental track ...

NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — Drake, the prolific hip-hop star who was last year’s top-selling artist, has returned with a song collection in which he ventures further into dancehall rhythms and ...

Get ready for an unforgettable night of Afro rhythm and dance energy as our Afro Beats Night takes over the dancefloor for round 2! Let the drums guide you, the bass shake the room, and the vibe take ...

For more than a year, Rihanna and her label Roc Nation have been hunting for beats as they work to complete an album devoted to exploring the singer’s Caribbean roots, according to conversations with ...