When Toots Hibbert (1942-2020) passed away on September 11, the music world lost a colossal talent. Hibbert got his start in Jamaica in the early ’60s and, after forming Toots & The Maytals, began ...

Toots and the Maytals have shared a new single, “Warning Warning,” following the group’s return to music earlier this year with the song “Got to Be Tough.” Just as Frederick “Toots” Hibbert issued ...

Roots reggae icons Toots and the Maytals have announced a new album. It’s called Got to Be Tough and it arrives August 28 (via Trojan Jamaica/BMG). Listen to the LP’s title track below. “Got to Be ...

Back in late-’60s Jamaica, the syncopated sound of early-day ska and rocksteady gave birth to the slower, more rhythm-based genre of reggae. Thanks to Bob Marley, the genre’s shooting star whose light ...

Toots Hibbert, Jamaica’s answer to James Brown, is 80 years old and still cranking out music that sounds as fresh as his original records in the mid-1960s. His latest under the Toots and the Maytals ...

Frederick Nathaniel “Toots” Hibbert, the Grammy-winning Jamaican singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and leader of reggae/rocksteady/ska band Toots & the Maytals, has died at age 77. The tragic ...

In early 1973, reggae was little more than a rumor in North America. Bob Marley hadn’t yet signed with Island Records, and few mainlanders could identify as reggae the funky island beat behind Johnny ...