The post Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock Is a Reggae-Filled Celebration of Black Joy: NYFF Review appeared first on Consequence of Sound. The Pitch: In London’s West Indian community in 1980, a house ...

Steve McQueen‘s Small Axe, a series of five films about the West Indian experience in the UK in the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, is currently airing on Amazon/BBC. The second Small Axe film, Lovers Rock, just ...

Gregory Isaacs, the Jamaican singer who pioneered the style of reggae music known as lovers rock and became one of the genre’s major stars in the 1970s, has died. He was 59. Isaacs died Monday at his ...

Steve McQueen's upcoming film Lovers Rocks airs on BBC One Sunday, November 22, as part of his Small Axe anthology series exploring the Black experience in Britain during the 60s and 80s. The new film ...

Steve McQueen’s new “Small Axe” anthology includes a film that centers on an offshoot of reggae that represented big shifts in the music, and in Black British culture. By Jeremy Gordon The lovesick ...

Reggae songstress J.C. Lodge first hit the scene in 1979 with the Joe Gibbs-produced “Someone Loves You Honey.” Back then, she went by the name of June Lodge, and her song became a standard lover’s ...

Soul Jazz's latest compilation focuses on British lovers rock, the softer, more feminine counterpart to the politicized roots reggae that soundtracked radical social and racial events in 1970s and 80s ...

A song needs to be exceptional if it’s going to occupy 10 minutes of a 69-minute movie. Steve McQueen’s “Lovers Rock,” one film in the Oscar-nominated director’s five-part “Small Axe” anthology series ...

This weekend, the One Love festival hits the Queen Mary in Long Beach, kicking off the three-day celebration of reggae rock. Since its inaugural event, Goldenvoice has turned One Love Cali Reggae Fest ...

The percussive rhythms of reggae and dancehall music can make anyone start moving toward the dance floor. Los Angeles has a small, yet passionate community of music lovers who cannot resist a night ...

Every weekend from the first whispers of warmth in spring to the last mild day in fall, the patio of this Bed-Stuy cocktail spot, named after a romantic subgenre of reggae, is a sprawl of naked limbs.