From Sir Coxsone to DJ Kool Herc, soundsystem culture has played a pivotal role in music's evolution. So before Red Bull Culture Clash 2017, here's a brief history of the soundsystem.

Winston “Merritone” Blake, the venerated Jamaican musicologist, producer and owner/operator of Merritone Music, succumbed to complications from asthma on February 27 at a Kingston hospital. He ...

He said such an event is a long time coming. DJ Kool Herc, the Jamaican sound system maverick widely hailed as the creator of hip hop, is promoting the festival with his sister, Cindy Campbell.

Ever since Kool Herc brought Jamaican sound system culture to the Bronx and birthed a billion-dollar industry called hip-hop, dancehall reggae has been the ghost in the American urban music ...

Now all of it sounds to me like Jamaican sound systems did in the 1970s, with huge bass and huge use of effects and tonality. Dance music used to be clicky, so it stood above the shagpile carpets ...

From Sir Coxsone to DJ Kool Herc, soundsystem culture has played a pivotal role in music's evolution. So before Red Bull Culture Clash Atlanta 2018, here's a brief history of the soundsystem.