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,” ...

Gov. John Bel Edwards may have inadvertently stumbled into a small controversy Thursday morning (March 28) when he told a crowd of Louisiana film and music industry folks that he’s not sure what the ...

Big Freedia may be best known as the queen of bounce music, a New Orleans icon, and the standout feature on Beyonce's "Break My Soul." For now, anyway. With her new album, Pressing Onward, she just ...

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 ...

New Orleans bounce music has been part of the mainstream for years now, most recently making an appearance in Beyoncé’s NOLA-centric “Formation” video. And its associated dance style, twerking, has ...

Katey Red grew up in the Melpomene Projects and got hooked on bounce music through artists like Cheeky Blakk, Partners-N-Crime and DJ Jubilee. Red and her friends would make up their own dance moves ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS — 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,” and the movement behind it is growing quickly, from ...