REGGAE RISING: Reggae-punk-hip-hop-fusion band King Zero plays Thursday, June 18, at SOhO Restaurant & Muisc Club with Fayuca, Ease Up, and True Press, but don’t call them a white-boy reggae band.

Clive Campbell was 12 when he moved from Kingston, Jamaica, to the Bronx in 1967. Tall and athletic, he ran track and attended Alfred E. Smith High School, a vocational school for auto mechanics. And ...

The charts are full of rappers, but Aer claims it freshens the genre. The band represents the Fresh Aer Movement, a style of music that blends reggae background and rap vocals. "Our sound is a lot," ...

Summer wouldn’t be summer without a 311 concert. The SoCal-by-way-Omaha rap/rock/reggae band has hit the road every summer for the past 18 years, and this year is no exception. The band performs at 8 ...

Just Friends have announced a new album, HELLA, due March 4 via Pure Noise (pre-order). If you’re unfamiliar with the band, they sound straight out of the early ’90s Lollapalooza era, with a ...

Rap-reggae-rock outfit 311 has a new album, “Mosaic,” that has the veteran group sexcited. But 311 would have toured this year even if it didn’t have new music. “That’s just what we do,” says singer ...

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Before he became the world’s biggest — and only — Hasidic Jewish reggae-rap star, Matisyahu (born Matthew Miller) was a conflicted young man. In his early 20s, as he began delving deeper into his ...

There’s no more perfect match between a band and a cover song than that of Dirty Heads and “Life’s Been Good.” Reworking Joe Walsh’s embrace of ’70s rock-star excess to fit their California beach ...

“Not My Daughter” is the kind of title that belongs at the end of a sentence — as in, “You can bully whomever you like, but not my daughter.” Right now, you’re probably envisioning a cover showing a ...