Just days before an announced closure, the Coupland Dancehall has been saved as a Texas country music shrine. On Aug. 11, Abbey Road, owner of the Coupland Dancehall, located in a rural community in ...

On Monday, the owner of the Coupland Dancehall, located in Coupland, a rural community in southeastern Williamson County, announced that the historic watering hole will close on Oct. 11 after 119 ...

Walshy Fire has long been involved in the dancehall scene. As a kid, he grew up near House of Leo, an iconic dancehall venue in Kingston, Jamaica. As a young adult, he joined Black Chiney, a Jamaican ...

After decades of being unable to physically connect with their fan base in the United States due to visa revocations, several of dancehall’s pioneers have once again been given the green light to ...

“I would really like for the artists to come in and make connections and understand the game and not get fucked like the old ones did,” said Shaggy of the third annual confab. By Janeé Bolden Artists, ...

The Jamacian-born singer put on a one-of-a-kind performance at the 2025 MOBO awards SINGER Spice, who has been dubbed The Queen of Dancehall by fans, has revealed the way that icon Shaggy not only ...

Vybz Kartel has set the record straight on whether he and Beenie Man are entering a feud over who is the real “King of Dancehall”. The rumours emerged after Kartel’s highly-successful Freedom Street ...

Gengetone came first then Arbantone took over the music industry with a bang. The term ‘genge’ comes from a sheng’ word meaning a mass of people hence when incorporated with music, it is music for ...

The second staging of Dancehall Week will be from Sunday, February 23, 2025, to Sunday, March 2, 2025, at Ranny Williams Entertainment Centre in St Andrew. The series coincides with the official ...

In this essay, writer AJ Morris explores the cultural history of Jamaican music, from reggae to dancehall, and examines how the medium works in tandem with Jamaican film as acts of protest and ...

Kenya has long tried to find a new sound that defines it. Could Arbantone be the country’s new beat? The Kenyan music industry has seen a variety of genres come and go. There was Boomba, Kapuka, and ...