Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Big Freedia isn’t feeling well on the day of our interview. A rigorous travel schedule promoting her first studio album in nine ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO)— Bounce music superstar Big Freedia means business and Freedia is keeping busy with the premiere of the show “Big Freedia Means Business” which premieres on Fuse TV in the summer of ...

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 ...

A Big Freedia show is typically a twerk-a-thon of booty-bouncing dancers. But throughout the 2025 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, fans have seen a different side of the Queen of Bounce. This ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) ...

The bounce music misnomer has been around for decades: DJs with little access to live instruments just shouted obscenities over simple beats to which women can shake their asses. Dismissive synopses ...