Flint's UK-made Reggae snare has a clever floating shell design with top and bottom heads tensioned equally at the same time. Despite the name, applications should stretch way beyond reggae. Worth ...

It was 1973 in Berkeley when Roger Steffens, thumbing through Rolling Stone magazine, became aware of a percolating, distant island music movement called reggae. He sought the sound out in record bins ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sly Dunbar performing in London in 2009 (photo: Gus Stewart / Redferns). Drummer Lowell Fillmore “Sly” Dunbar, who with the late ...

Stewart Copeland is undoubtably one of the most influential rock drummers of all-time. His captivating mix of rock and reggae demands the attention of drummers everywhere, and the influence is heard ...

In ancient times, the essence of drums could not be overemphasized, mainly because of their power to communicate coded languages. Either in times of war or in praising heroic deeds, these drums became ...

The Jamaica Observer presents another in its series on entertainment figures whose contributions have been acknowledged in this year’s National Honours and Awards. When the history of drumming in ...