Before freestyle — the dance music born out of New York’s Latin community in the 1980s — even had a name, an underage Lisa Velez (before she became Lisa Lisa) remembers sneaking into the storied Fun ...

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 ...

Since 2004 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

Freestyle music got its name from a Miami group called Freestyle Express. Someone left out half the name on the group’s most popular record, and when “Don’t Stop the Rock” became a national hit, the ...

It's a familiar story: the so-called "Death of Disco" giving way to a new genre of American dance music. But instead of house or techno, I'm referring to freestyle, a genre that fused electro beats ...

In an age of bouncy and slow trap-based rap music — where the tempos of songs are usually between 130 and 160 beats per minute (BPM) — it's refreshing that certain rappers are bringing freestyle music ...

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 ...

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, ...

For the sake of both music and history, be grateful that Orlando has remained one of the cities keeping the flame alive for Latin Freestyle over the years. One of the best, most direct musical ...

Meet Jean Carlos Santiago, better known in the Latin music scene as Guaynaa. By Suzette Fernandez There is a popular phrase: “Cuando la música corre por las venas te motiva” (when the music runs ...