It was a note from The Clash that clinched world fame for reggae's first rapper, Mikey Dread. No sooner had he returned to his native Jamaica after signing a record deal in England, than he received ...

Best known in the UK as producer of the Clash, Jamaican born Mikey Dread, who has died aged 54, was a crucial figure during the punk period when fans and musicians alike began to embrace reggae as ...

The Clash will mark the 40th anniversary of their penultimate LP Combat Rock with a new reissue featuring unreleased songs, demo and outtakes recorded in the lead-up to the 1982 album. In addition to ...

Mikey Dread, a man with one of the sweetest, strangest, most soulful and distinctive singing voices in all of reggae music, hits town Wednesday night for what will surely be a punky reggae party. The ...

Seminal reggae musician Mikey Dread may have passed away earlier this year, but his legacy will live on. Sure, he worked with the Clash, but he did a lot more than that: He was a pioneering DJ in ...

But since Mikey was the engineer rather than a radio personality, he wasn’t allowed to speak on air, and relied instead on custom jingles, sound effects, the pre-recorded ‘dread talk’ of Rastafari ...

Like most tales of triumph and tragedy, the life, career, and untimely passing of reggae pioneer Mikey Dread at age 53 will live on long beyond his time on earth. There aren’t many artists in the ...

Okay, this week officially sucks: Reggae legend Mikey Dread died Saturday of a brain tumor at his Connecticut home at the age of 54. Born Michael Campbell, Dread began his career as a radio DJ in ...