The transgender bounce rapper out of the Melpomene Projects, Katey Red, dropped her local landmark album "Melpomene Block Party" on Take Fo Records just about a decade ago. Over that period, she's ...

Katey Red grew up in the Melpomene Projects and got hooked on bounce music through artists like Cheeky Blakk, Partners-N-Crime and DJ Jubilee. Red and her friends would make up their own dance moves ...

Famous New Orleans bounce artist Katey Red has plans to open a new bar for LGBTQ+ patrons in the Treme neighborhood, according to a post she shared on her Instagram page. "It's been a long time coming ...

After almost 10 years of block-party sovereignty, a new chapter in bounce opened in 1999, when the local Take Fo' label — home to artists like Choppa and DJ Jubilee — issued Melpomene Block Party, the ...

Katey Red, who is celebrating a 10th anniversary as a 'sissy' bounce performer, says other gay performers 'appreciate me coming out, so they can do their own thing.' In the mainstream music world, New ...

Hitting town late Wednesday evening for the annual SXSW music-industry conference and fest in Austin, TX, social media was making it clear that the hot spots of the night were Fiona Apple's set for ...

This is long overdue. Twelve years after bounce rapper Katey Red first began releasing classic songs like “Melpomene Block Party (Punk Under Pressure)” on seminal Take Fo’ Records, she’s finally put ...

In 1999, Katey Red — the transsexual rapper from the Melpomene Projects — definitively stepped — with a size-12, well-pedicured foot — onto the scene with her first release on Take Fo Records, ...

Paul is an authority on hip-hop and rap music if there is one, ever. He's produced tracks and albums for De La Soul, Big Daddy Kane, Slick Rick and dozens others. Here, the pioneer gives his blessing ...

Will 2011 be remembered as the year that homosexuality in hip-hop finally had its first – if awkward – coming-out talk? For all the clear and regrettable misogyny in many mainstream hip-hop lyrics, ...

Britney Spears has written a song for Smurfs. (Ted Jackson/The Times-Picayune archive) Britney Spears, Kentwood's favorite wayward daughter, revealed the single "Ooh La La" earlier this week. The ...