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 ...

El Alfa never stops. Throughout his 15-year career, the Dominican pioneer has worked relentlessly to bring dembow to the world — and it’s worked. The genre has gone massively global with him at the ...

Tokischa is dembow's renaissance woman. In a short amount of time, her message of liberation has left a mark on the music industry. While she has always been an artist, Tokischa fell in love with ...

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 ...

Washington Heights has a storied history of culture and entrepreneurship. Long before the musical and recent movie adaptation of "In the Heights" brought the vibrant spectacle of the neighborhood to ...

For me, one world-traveling, chart-conquering rhythm — deployed by the likes of Daddy Yankee, Justin Bieber and Drake — defines the sweatiest time of year. By Reggie Ugwu Songs of summer are like M&Ms ...

Kiko El Crazy broke out in the Dominican Republic with some of the dembow’s scene most off-the-wall songs — spry and agile, like they were moving in fast-forward, punctuated with a signature shake of ...

The sold-out show by the Dominican artist was a watershed moment for the dembow movement. By Isabelia Herrera “Who said the Dominican Republic couldn’t go global?” El Alfa announced in Spanish from ...

Pitchfork contributing editor Isabelia Herrera’s new column covers the most captivating songs, trends, and scenes coming out of Latin America and its diaspora. Raymi Paulus is sitting in his apartment ...