The judge expressed some reluctance to rule as a matter of law whether the percussion arrangement of a 1989 instrumental ...

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 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 ...

I first heard the infectious dembow rhythm that undergirds every reggaeton song at my eighth-grade back-to-school dance. A mosh pit of suburban teens was trying in earnest to move their hips to the ...

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 ...

FACT Rated is our series digging into the sounds and stories of the most vital breaking artists around right now. This week, DJ Python – aka Luis, aka DJ Wey – tells Oli Warwick how his fusion of ...

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 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.

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 ...