Big Freedia isn’t feeling well on the day of our interview. A rigorous travel schedule promoting her first studio album in nine years has taken its toll on her shoulder, which gives her problems from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Like most good New Orleans’ traditions, bounce music came from the streets. A New Orleans-grown form of hip-hop, bounce came from second-line rhythms and Mardi Gras Indians’ call-and-response chants.

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — New Orleans is known for bounce music, but what about bounce houses? “The World’s Largest Bounce House” is jumping from city to city on tour and is making a stop at the University ...

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 ...

Three members of New Orleans’ distinct hip-hop canon have combined their talents and formed a new triumvirate. Cheeky Blakk, Choppa and DJ Jubilee are now a trio called Bounce Royalty. Today (June 17) ...

Ari Shapiro has been one of the hosts of All Things Considered, NPR's flagship afternoon newsmagazine, since 2015. He has been a question on Jeopardy and an answer in the New York Times crossword ...