Baby Erin already taught us how to bounce our booties like basketballs, and the pint-sized popper is taking her lessons into the classroom. The “Princess of Bounce” has released a new music video, “Schoolhouse Rock,” in which she becomes teacher for the day. Click through to view:

As locals defend booty shaking on their home turf, teen star Miley Cyrus is twerking hard to show Bounce moves to a national audience. In a recent KISS FM interview with Ryan Seacrest, Cyrus explained a new video she uploaded to her Facebook page in which she “twerks” to J. Dash’s “WOP.” The pop star credits New Orleans for her interest in the genre.

Today, enjoy art after hours in City Park, bounce on St. Claude, see Flogging Molly at HOB, and more. On this day in 1956, Federal Judge S. Wright ordered the desegregation of New Orleans schools. Now, click through to plan your Friday.

Galactic's Ben Ellman and DJ Quickie Mart built up a quick following after two servings of Balkan Bounce in their side project Gypsyphonic Disko. For their next project, the pair decided to come back home for Carnival, using nostalgic Mardi Gras classics as a base for a bounce remix. 

With Republic bringing them all together and the fact that those DJ Jubilee dances are still all the rage, we've seen many signs that the pioneers of New Orlens Bounce are more than happy to let their music free to find the ears of the next generation. Ricky B, whose "Shake For Ya Hood" remains a Bounce classic, confirmed that this was more than a hunch, allowing the song to get the remix treatment from next-generation Bounce practitioner DJ Quickie Mart.

Friday is here, and tonight you can celebrate with Johnny Sketch at Maple Leaf, art after hours at NOMA, bounce on St. Claude, or a Vox and the Hound release party at HOB. Today in 2001, Dr. John was the musical guest on Late Night with Conan O’Brien. Click through to find out how to kick off your weekend.

With the local spring festival season often crowded and the ever-expanding national summer festival season pulling in more and more acts, New Orleans citizens know all too well the feeling of viewing their favorite bands’ tour schedules and seeing their city leapfrogged and left out.  But we have finally come to fall, and event calendars around town are filling up quickly with out of town acts as well as unique local alternatives and new combinations of old favorites.

With fall around the corner, the Voodoo Music Experience is firming up their lineup. Today, the big Halloween weekend show in City Park added 20 more names to this year's roster, and released the complete schedule of performances. The big headliner of the late additions is Nas. Fresh off the release of his latest album Life is Good over the summer, the Queens-born rapper is more into reflection than feuds these days. Also joining the roster are prog-leaning rockers Coheed and Cambria and the soul-worshipping Vintage Trouble. There's locals, too!

Stevie Wonder was in town to receive a Legend Award at the 2012 National Urban League Conference on Saturday, July 28, and ended up performing to bounce music by night’s end. At the Whitney M. Young, Jr. Awards Masquerade Gala,at the Morial Convention Center, he performed a few classics on a baby grand to close out the conference, where U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and National Urban League president Marc Morial were in the house. At an after party, Stevie Wonder got on stage and performed “Superstition,” “Do I Do,” and “Signed, Sealed, Delivered” to an old-school Bounce beat provided by DJ Raj Smoove and 2 Cent was there to catch it on film:

Today, wine and dine in Spanish fashion at the San Fermin Wine Dinner to kickoff the San Fermin en Nueva Orleans fest, punk out at Creepy Fest on St. Claude, harmonize with the Indigo Girls at Tip’s, and bounce your booty at Republic. On this day in Louisiana history, late gospel vocalist Paul Foster of The Golden Echoes and The Soul Stirrers was born in Shreveport (1920), classical pianist Van Cliburn, who won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow during the Cold War, was born in Shreveport (1934) and the Neville Brothers’ 1989 album Yellow Moon was certified Gold (1994). Now for today's gold: