King Django/Predator Assassins/Broke by Monday

As a long-running influential musician in the roots reggae scene, King Django acts as both traditionalist as well as a crossover artist of a sort. His rock steady grooves play to the old-school crowd but elements of klezmer and punk set him apart. The 1998 album Roots And Culture put emphasis on this klezmer-reggae mash- up. Lately, he’s taken to more straightforward dub. His latest record, Anywhere I Roam, carries more of the upfront vibe with chilled-out one-drops. The long and storied history, working with some of the genre’s biggest names (Rancid, the Toasters and others), has made him the finely tuned reggae producer he is today. (Stoops)