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 ...

That’s how rapper, party promoter, and restaurateur 10th Ward Buck would define bounce in a sentence or less. It’s the name for the 1986 song “Drag Rap” by the Showboys, and its samples have been the ...

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 ...

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 ...