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Big Freedia: Just Be Free

By |June 17th, 2014|Categories: press|Tags: |

Over 23 years, the hyperkinetic, unapologetically horny sound of New Orleans bounce has changed the world – perhaps you've heard of the word "twerk"? – and now the genre's loudest ambassador has finally made a [...]

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Album stream and Q&A: Big Freedia’s ‘Just Be Free’

By |June 10th, 2014|Categories: press|

Big Freedia is about to explode. A few months ago I came across the unforgettable, gender-bending artist on the Fuse network, which was marathoning her unscripted show, Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce. Within minutes, I was hooked [...]

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Album stream and Q&A: Big Freedia’s ‘Just Be Free’

By |June 10th, 2014|Categories: press|

A few months ago I came across the unforgettable, gender-bending artist on the Fuse network, which was marathoning her unscripted show, Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce. Within minutes, I was hooked on her sound, style [...]

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Big Freedia: All Hail the ‘Queen of Bounce’ – EBONY

By |May 28th, 2014|Categories: news, press|

The first thing that hits you is the bass, booming and almost deafening in its intensity. Then there are the booties, abundant and defiantly moving to the rhythm as sweat flies across the stage. A Big [...]

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“ARE YOU HERE FOR THE TWERKING?”

By |September 23rd, 2013|Categories: press|

Around noon on Wednesday, as the nation watched Ted Cruz wrap up his twenty-one-hour filibuster, New Yorkers in and around Herald Square watched a crowd gather for an attempt to set the world record for [...]

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Big Freedia Lays Out The Basics Of Bounce

By |January 27th, 2013|Categories: press|

Born out of New Orleans club culture, bounce music isn't just best experienced in person — it's almost impossible to understand in the abstract. But Big Freedia (pronounced "free-duh"), one of the style's biggest stars, [...]

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New Orleans’s Gender-Bending Rap

By |July 25th, 2010|Categories: press|

At 1 a.m., though, Freedia (pronounced “FREE-da”) was still a mile or so away, fulfilling a paid celebrity-hosting gig at Club Fabulous. The fabulousness of Club Fabulous, on this night at least, seemed a function [...]

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