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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...