Foburg Festival, the indie music fest scheduled around the South by Southwest music conference in Austin, Texas, has announced its 2012 lineup, with Maps and Atlases, Japanther, J. Roddy Walston & The Business, and Big Freedia headlining. Foburg Festival, now in its third year, will take place Friday, March 9 through Sunday, March 11, and [...]
Tag Archives: bounce
YouTube du Jour: Big Freedia on Jimmy Kimmel Live
January 26, 2012 – 12:40 pm
Last night Big Freedia brought bounce to national television with a performance on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live late-night talk show. Freedia performed two recent songs, “Excuse” (above) and “Na Who Mad” (below). You can watch the full episode on JimmyKimmelLive.com. Tomorrow night Big Freedia performs at our Best of the Beat Awards at Generations Hall. [...]
Big Freedia Explains Bounce to Pitchfork
January 18, 2012 – 3:16 pm
Indie rock website Pitchfork recently posted video with Big Freedia onstage and backstage, where she explains bounce. She’ll be onstage Friday, January 27 at the Best of the Beat Awards to show how it’s done. // // ]]>
Inside DJ Poppa’s Party House
January 13, 2012 – 4:58 pm
“You’re about to enter an urban environment,” says Jack Spratt. “All sorts of felonious mishaps may occur.” With that, he flicks a helmet visor down and stalks off into the alley. The lanky host of Poppa’s Party House—the Sunday night bounce party at House of Blues—sports a helmet decorated with stickers of hundred dollar bills, [...]
YouTube du Jour: Prince Paul Meets Bounce + New Big Freedia
December 1, 2011 – 1:16 pm
Scion, Toyota’s millennial-targeted subsidiary brand, has been a big fan of New Orleans bounce via its media/marketing arm Scion A/V. Earlier this year they sponsored the EP Scion A/V Presents Big Freedia, as well as the video for Freedia’s “Y’all Get Back Now”, and a mix from DJs Rusty Lazer and Brice Nice (the mix [...]
Happy Thanksgiving: A Big Freedia Animated GIF
November 24, 2011 – 1:46 pm
Nothing says Thanksgiving like an animated GIF of Big Freedia and her dancers poppin in downtown New Orleans, taken from Freedia’s “Y’all Get Back Now” music video. Source: eatcasey.tumblr.com.
Bounce X at Republic: Photos
November 1, 2011 – 5:30 pm
Republic hosted its biggest New Orleans bounce revue yet on Thursday, October 27. The show—Bounce X: Legends of Bounce—featured a mix of the old and new generations of bounce, with performances by Sissy Nobby, Katey Red, DJ Jubilee, Ricky B, 10th Ward Buck, Cheeky Blakk, Ms. Tee, Rusty Lazer, Nicky Da B, and Flyboy Keno. [...]
Super 8 Film Contest at One Eyed Jacks
October 14, 2011 – 2:51 pm
At One Eyed Jacks this Friday, October 14, a legitimately eccentric celebration will be taking place—the sort of event that could really only happen in New Orleans. It’s the Unofficial New Orleans Film Fest One Reel Super 8 Contest & Extravaganza, which I agree is difficult to get out in a single breath, and it’s [...]
YouTube du Jour: Kourtney Heart
October 11, 2011 – 11:55 am
Teen R&B singer Kourtney Heart released this second video for her song “My Boy” last night. The new video is for a remix featuring Soulja Boy that first came out in February this year and received heavy radio airplay. Gone from the original version’s video are the backup dancers and cameos from late collaborator Magnolia [...]
Sissy Before Sissy: A History of the Dance Called “The Sissy”
October 1, 2011 – 12:16 am
Over a generation before hip-hop dancers at DJ Jubilee’s New Orleans gigs were doing the Sissy Boom to bounce songs, or outré gay rappers Katey Red, Big Freedia, and Sissy Nobby turned the bounce scene on its…um…ear with the hyper-driven spin-off that has come to be known as Sissy Bounce, gay and straight denizens of [...]
