Big Freedia may be best known as the queen of bounce music, a New Orleans icon, and the standout feature on Beyonce's "Break My Soul." For now, anyway. With her new album, Pressing Onward, she just ...

More than five years after SOPHIE’s death sent shockwaves through the music world, a previously unreleased collaboration with ...

This weekend, Freedia is scheduled to turn Hattiesburg, Mississippi into bounce music's center of the universe for a well-publicized "international twerk day" concert. As in the movie Footloose, a ...

The three-track project, recorded in 2016, features the unreleased fan favorite "Blaze That Ass" ...

Big Freedia has announced an EP with the late British producer, DJ, songwriter and trans rights activist SOPHIE. The untitled ...

NEW ORLEANS — The Mid-City Bayou Boogaloo is back for its 18th year, bringing three days of music, food, and fun to the banks of Bayou St. John from May 16-18, 2025. This year’s festival features Big ...

Big Freedia is back and bolder than ever in the new Fuse network show “Big Freedia Means Business.” TheGrio’s Marc Lamont Hill spoke with the hardest twerking diva in the business about juggling new ...

Big Freedia just added a new spin on a popular nursery rhyme. She appeared and performed a remix to “Row Row Row Your Boat” for the animated children’s series, “Gracie’s Corner.” The new video ...

We are truly in the midst of surprise release season. First Drake came through with Honestly, Nevermind and now Beyoncé arrives with “Break My Soul,” which, like the Drake album, is also a fresh dose ...

For most people, it would take a lot of convincing to visit a supposedly haunted former insane asylum. But for Big Freedia, it required nothing more than an invitation from her “baby, Kesha.” ...

I realized it was the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina as I waited for Big Freedia to pick up the phone. We’re a decade out, that awkward point at which we’re supposed to never forget, but the ...

If you’re lucky like me, your introduction to Big Freedia involved a dance floor, reverberating speakers, and a sweaty cohort of co-twerkers. The triggerman beat crept quickly into your body and took ...