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Tanya Batson-Savage (Susumba) writes about the Jamaican Music Museum’s focus this month on trombonist Don Drummond. The musician will be honored though musical performances, poetry and presentations. The Jamaican Music Museum’s Reggae Month series opens on February 7, 2016, with the launch of Heather Augustyn’s biography Don Drummond: The Genius and Tragedy of the World’s Greatest…

From Seattle's grunge scene to New York's queer rave community, these 10 books published in 2023 traverse the underground in the untold stories of music scenes.

Heather Augustyn, a Chesterton native and one of the world’s foremost historians on all styles of Jamaican music, examines the dynamics between the sexes in “Rude Girls,” a love letter to the women in ska. Released on International Women’s Day March 8, “Rude Girls” is her eighth book on Jamaican music and the first book ever on women in the ska movement.

The ska revival kicked to life by the Specials blended previous subcultural styles in their own Cuisinart: Kingston, Jamaica, Mod, Skinhead and Jamaican rude-boy.

A MURAL has appeared on a busy street promoting a new comic book telling the story of Don Drummond.