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 ...

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 ...

From Latin freestyle to international pop, movies, and of course salsa, we remember Marc Anthony's career highlights. By Billboard Staff Marc Anthony is going to have a big impact on this year’s ...

TKA, the Latin freestyle trio that was prominent in the 1980s and early 1990s, will be among those featured at the Wellmont in Montclair for the third annual Jersey Freestyle Jam. Performances by TKA, ...

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 ...

In the world of battle rap, names like Smack White and competitions like Ultimate Rap League and Queen of the Ring are just as common, household names as Jay-Z and Drake are to mainstream Hip Hop. In ...

*Cynthia Torres, a.k.a. Cynthia, was excited to talk about her upcoming show as part of the Forever Freestyle 13 concert celebrating 13 years of Latin Freestyle music on Saturday, March 16 at 8pm at ...

A Love Story in New Jersey at New Jersey Performing Arts Center (Dec 5 – Dec 6, 2026). An immersive, music-and-dance-filled ...

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 ...