We invited audiences to join Waiata 100: our search for Aotearoa’s favourite New Zealand song from a list of about 1000 New ...

Reflecting on International Reggae Day, the writer explores how reggae shaped his political awakening and personal identity, while arguing that its enduring messages of justice, unity and hope remain ...

Nine years after her majestic Spellbound debut album, reggae luminary Kelissa has finally returned with a new soulful, ...

These four mainstream rock songs put reggae music on the international stage after its establishment in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

International Reggae Day is celebrated on July 1 every year. Here’s how reggae was born in Jamaica, why the day was created ...

Ahead of a new book on the history of dub, David Katz offers us ten entry points into the back catalogue of King Tubby ...

Variety music writers round up the best albums of 2026 so far, including Olivia Rodrigo, Ella Langley, Drake, Raye, Paul ...

Meanwhile, Perry had accelerated his post-punk agenda and had renamed ATV The Good Missionaries, inspired by a track from the ...

The late production genius’s chaotic reputation has always preceded him. But could two new books, a posthumous album and a ...

It is officially summer and it’s another somewhat quiet week in Indie Basement as we’re nestled in between two holiday weekends. I review four new records: Beth Orton‘s The Ground Above; the debut ...

The idea of merging Diane’s world with island reggae and the artists that we work with at Island Empire is a dream come true for both sides, and so I’m happy that we were able to accomplish that. I ...