Freestyle beat music grew from the raw energy of Bronx block parties, fueled by Afro-Caribbean creativity and limited resources. Innovators like DJ Kool Herc and Grandmaster Flash transformed ...

Ten years after his run helped define a generation’s summer, Fetty Wap returns with Zavier, a more reflective, evolved sound and a chance to tap back into something people have been wanting to feel ...

Freestyle, the subgenre of dance music that emerged in the early years of the 1980s and hit peak popularity toward the end of the decade, isn't a particularly easy sound to define. It's a hodgepodge ...

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 ...

At 9 p.m. on a breezy Thursday at The Boat Yard at Tobay Beach, the dance floor is packed with 40- and 50-somethings grooving to the freestyle music that was the soundtrack to their teens and 20s. As ...

Maria Cavalluzzo of Babylon has one rule when she goes to a freestyle concert with her girlfriends — she insists on having seats upfront. “I will not go unless I get tickets in the front row,” she ...