For the past couple of years, a 23-year-old producer from the suburbs of Buenos Aires has been challenging the mainstream of Latin music, one viral YouTube video at a time. You only need to watch a ...

Plenty has been written about Haight-Ashbury and the South Bronx of the '70s, and thanks to about a dozen photo books, punk fans too young to have pissed in the CBGB bathroom know what the graffiti ...

Freestyle, the subgenre of dance music that emerged in the early years of the 1980s and hit peak popularity toward the end of the decade, isn't a particularly easy sound to define. It's a hodgepodge ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Hard-core fans of the late-’80s electro-pop strain known as Latin ...

Though started on the East Coast, the Bay Area launched Freestyle’s commercial explosion and laid the foundation for contemporary EDM. The July 25th Stevie B show at San Jose’s Plaza de Cesar Chavez ...

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From Miami bass and freestyle to electro and IDM, Miami has long fostered an innovative underground dance music scene. Recently, the Magic City scene has benefitted from an explosion of Latin sounds ...

J Noa, the Dominican teen rap dynamo, drew expressions of wonder and joy from a quartet of rap’s founders with an intricate, sometimes lightning-paced freestyle that stretches on and on. In video, ...

Orlando and the Central Florida area have long kept the flame alive for Latin Freestyle over the years. So this weekend, legends of that ebullient 1980s dance-music genre are taking over Silver Spurs ...

The Freestyle Festival turns 20 in 2022 and it’s going to be a party with a stacked lineup featuring hip-hop, pop, R&B and disco artists from the ’80s and ’90s including Lisa Lisa, Taylor Dayne, ...

Brenda K. Starr, the New Jersey-based artist known for her bold, colorful style and chart-topping hits, is preparing for a return to the stage. With roots in Latin freestyle and salsa, Starr has long ...