Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Big Freedia is famous in New Orleans for being the queen of bounce — but even if you’ve never danced down Bourbon Street yourself, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new sound is taking shape in New Orleans, one that blends the soul of jazz with the energy of bounce. It’s called “Jazz Bounce,” ...

If you need a little Bounce in your life, you might want to attend the New Orleans Bounce Awards. It takes place Saturday at 7 p.m. at Rosenwald Gym in Central City.The event is the first of its kind ...

Mannie Fresh is a legend for being a Swiss army knife in the music game. Super producer, DJ, professional sh*t talker before the MC begins his verse. Whatever ya need, Mr.Fresh is going to bring that ...

The music industry has an organizational problem -- namely, how does one keep track of all their tracks? With Bounce, Godmode Music co-founders Nick Sylvester and Talya Elitzer have set about… By ...

Born out of New Orleans club culture, bounce music isn't just best experienced in person — it's almost impossible to understand in the abstract. But Big Freedia (pronounced "free-duh"), one of the ...

Right now, Big Freedia is at the top of her career. In the past five years, the bounce musician has been sampled on Beyoncé’s banger, “Formation” (she’s the one saying, “I came to slay, bitch”), and ...

Big Freedia knows a thing or two about twerking — last fall she helped set the Guinness World Record for the most people twerking simultaneously. This month, she has even more reasons to get on the ...

It's late on a Tuesday morning in December, and the sounds of deep belly laughs and playful banter are echoing off the walls of Tipitina’s, a historic music venue in New Orleans’s Uptown district. The ...

504icygrl, the performer name for Ariel Riley, grew up in a music-loving New Orleans household in the early 2000s and her mother exposed her to a lot of local hip-hop. She started recording her own ...

Big Freedia dials back the crisp exploratory pop on 2014’s Just Be Free to embrace the wobbling down-home slappers that have long been her bread and butter. Leveraging the momentum of the 2017 Mannie ...

A common cliche about New Orleans is that music emanates from every street corner. That’s not altogether wrong: for most of the year, Social Aid and Pleasure clubs, some of which have been around for ...