Reggae NYC

Dig some sweet Reggae in NYC, including ska and dancehall, at Brooklyn Bowl, SOB’s, AfroPunk, BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn, and more. There’s also Barclays Center, Hammerstein Ballroom, and UBS Arena. Reggae’s relationship between the bass, skank guitar, drum pattern, and offbeat contain an implied cross-rhythmic tension that functions as an organizing principle similar to clave. Reggae en español became Reggaeton in a trip from Jamaica to Panama, to New York, to Puerto Rico. Reggae’s Jamaican sound system, toasting over riddims, versioning, provided the structure for Hip Hop, direct from Kingston.