Latin music stars Farruko and Bad Bunny have expanded their sound, and their audience. (Jason Koerner / Getty Images for Univision; Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) Decades before Farruko became ...

The dembow ambassador performed to a sold-out crowd at the Peacock Theater on Friday, Oct. 17, as part of his retirement tour ...

Last year a US judge declined to dismiss a lawsuit that accuses thousands of reggaeton releases of infringing the copyright ...

A new wave of Latinx artists – among them, Kelman Duran, DJ Python and Tomasa del Real – are shaping the world-conquering reggaeton sound made famous by Daddy Yankee and J Balvin into radical sounds.

The ritmo (rhythm) of the island has washed ashore, but this isn’t the typical tropical groove. These dancefloor smashes struck a chord thanks to their use of Dembow, an ultrafast dance genre from the ...

The instrumental track "Fish Market" by Jamaican duo Steeely & Clevie is at the center of a copyright infringement lawsuit against dozens of Reggaeton artists. (YouTube via Courthouse News) LOS ...

The lawsuit that could significantly impact the past and future of reggaeton music will proceed to trial as a judge denied the majority of motions to dismiss the legal action involving the oft-sampled ...

If you were on a very specific part of the Internet last year, it’s likely that a post-punk cover of Karol G’s hit “Bichota” ended up on your radar. It came from a Chilean band called Friolento, who ...

A copyright case claims that virtually every big song in the genre was illegally copied from a 1989 track. By Bill Donahue Even if you don’t know the name or the backstory, you probably know the sound ...

The history of música urbana is one of perpetual reinvention. Long before the ultra-polished Bad Bunny and Drake collaborations, before Diplo crashed the baile funk party and made millions, these ...

Decades before Farruko became one of Puerto Rico’s stand-out reggaeton MCs, the 30-year-old was a huge fan of Eurodance artists like Alice Deejay. “That was my childhood,” confesses Farruko of the ...

On Jan. 7, Dominican superstar El Alfa posted a grief-stricken message on Instagram following the death of his grandmother Ramonita, and ended with a message of retirement for his nearly two-decade ...