From Chicago House to Detroit Techno

By |2023-07-17T21:39:28-05:00July 17th, 2023|Chicago, Dance Music, Detroit, DJ, House, House Music|

  WORDS BY NEAL ANDREW EMIL GUSTAFSON AND JESSICA FORTUNE FENNER A strong relationship exists between the spiritual sounds of Chicago and the mechanical sonics of Detroit. The decades-strong alignment is rooted in their history of shared traditions within the Black American musical diaspora, their proximity, and their midwestern heart. Both cities contributed significantly to [...]

House music fans celebrate the Chicago-born genre at the Chosen Few picnic (Chicago Sun Times)

By |2023-07-09T12:35:24-05:00July 9th, 2023|Chicago, Dance Music, DJ, House, House Music, House Music History, LGBTQIA+, Music News, news|

Desiree Taylor, 47, from Baltimore, came to Chicago for the first time with eight friends who go to house music festivals every year for the “funkier” and “more soulful” approach of house music. The Chosen Few picnic got off to a rainy start Saturday, but the rain couldn’t dampen the good vibes that brought thousands [...]

The Chosen Few have cracked the code for the perfect Chicago music festival (Chicago Reader)

By |2023-07-01T18:02:27-05:00July 1st, 2023|Chicago, Chicago House Music Festival, Dance Music, DJ, House, House Music, Promotional|

  Chicagoans rarely suffer from a shortage of music festivals, but few such events make me feel like I’m participating in the city’s cultural fabric like the Chosen Few Picnic. The long-running house-music celebration began informally in 1990, and its roots extend even further back. Wayne Williams founded the Chosen Few DJ collective in 1977 [...]

Silver Room Block Party Is Ending After This Year (Block Club Chicago)

By |2023-06-25T12:11:54-05:00June 25th, 2023|Chicago, Dance Music, DJ, House, House Music, House Music History, Music News|

Founder Eric Williams said the annual show, which started as a small gathering of neighbors in a Wicker Park alley, has gotten too expensive to produce. The final edition will be July 29-30 at Oakwood Beach. OAKWOOD BEACH — After almost 20 years, one of Summertime Chi’s favorite street festivals is calling it quits. [...]

Birthplace of house music one step away from landmark status (Chicago Sun Times)

By |2023-06-20T18:35:26-05:00June 20th, 2023|Chicago, Classics, Frankie Knuckles, Gay, House, House Music, House Music History, LGBTQIA+, Music News, news|

“The Warehouse,” at 206 S. Jefferson St., regarded as the birthplace of house music, could be granted historic landmark status by the city as early as Wednesday. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Time From 1977 through the mid-1980s, the resident DJ at the Warehouse was Frankie Knuckles, a record producer and remix artist hailed as the “Godfather of [...]

Robert Owens, Queen! added to Chicago House Music Festival & Conference (5 Mag)

By |2023-06-07T19:14:07-05:00June 7th, 2023|5 Magazine, Announcements, Chicago, Chicago House Music Festival, Dance Music, DJ, Gay, House, House Music, LGBTQIA+, Music News|

The City of Chicago has announced the full line-up for the 2023 Chicago House Music Festival and Conference taking place on June 23 and June 24, 2023. The city previously announced that this year’s festival will be taking place on the Humboldt Park Boathouse lawn on June 24, 2023 from 11am to 9pm. The initial line-up [...]

Beyond Heaven: Discovering the hidden history of Chicago house music (5Mag)

By |2023-05-28T17:42:07-05:00May 28th, 2023|5 Magazine, Chicago, Classics, Dance Music, DJ, House, House Music, House Music History, Promotional, Review|

Beyond Heaven is a series of books that serve as one of the best historical references to the early days of Chicago House Music that we have. Collecting flyers dating back as far as 1981, the books are stuffed with the names of DJ both prominent and obscure and forgotten, and venues that no [...]

Remembering the Black and Queer Foundations That Helped to Build House Music (vt.co)

By |2023-02-28T18:18:13-06:00February 28th, 2023|African American, black History Month, Dance Music, Disco, DJ, electronic music, Gay, House, House Music, House Music History, LGBTQIA+, Music, UK|

  By Asiya Ali For this Black History Month US and LGBT History Month, we're celebrating the rich roots of house music and the Black and Queer DJs who helped create it. There's a strong impression that House music has become synonymous with whiteness. This is obviously due to the genre being spearheaded by mostly white, [...]

BLACK HISTORY, HOUSE MUSIC, AND JESSE SAUNDERS (MUSIC IS FOR LOVERS)

By |2023-02-20T19:10:11-06:00February 20th, 2023|African American, black History Month, Chicago, Classics, Dance Music, DJ, House, House Music|

MITCH DODGE.  FEBRUARY 12, 2023 Jesse Saunders · Jesse Saunders – MLK I Have A Dream Mix With Black history month upon us, it was a must we reflected and educated ourselves on a very important subject in particular, Black history in House Music. House music was created by various DJ’s and producers in the mid-80’s from [...]

MEET, MATE, AND CREATE: THE LIFE OF HONEY DIJON (SSENSE)

By |2023-02-18T14:37:14-06:00February 18th, 2023|African American, black History Month, Chicago, Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, DJ, Honey Dijon, Interviews, LGBTQIA+, Music, producer|

Fashion’s Favorite DJ on Crossing Cultural Borders Interview: Adam Wray Photography: Benjamin Huseby “You could drop this in London and it would be the same,” says Honey Dijon, gesturing around the interior of The Apparatus Room. Nestled in the lobby of the Foundation Hotel in downtown Detroit, the lounge projects a specific sort of made-for-Instagram bougieness, [...]

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