KRIS LORI Jerome Derradji of Still Music inspects a multitrack tape from Record Al’s house-music cache in his Humboldt Park home. For the photo shoot, he made the obviously unpremeditated choice to wear a T-shirt for another one of his labels. Last summer, Chicago DJ and producer Jerome Derradji returned to his native France for the first [...]
Michael Jackson performs "Dangerous" during a taping of the American Bandstand's 50th-anniversary show Saturday, April 20, 2002, in Pasadena, Calif. (Kevork Djansezian/AP) The King of Pop is moonwalking to Broadway. The Michael Jackson Estate and Columbia Live Stage announced Tuesday that they are developing a new jukebox musical inspired by the life [...]
BY SCOTT WILSON, Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album features two unheard Coltrane originals. A lost John Coltrane album will finally get a release after 55 years. Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album will be released on June 29 and includes two unheard originals among its seven tracks, all recorded in one day in March 1963 at Van Gelder [...]
By Anna Codrea-Rado May 3, 2018 WEIL AM RHEIN, Germany — In May 1985, the Palladium nightclub opened its doors to a Who’s Who of the New York art world. Andy Warhol, Keith Haring and Larry Rivers were all there to check out the new club billed as a successor to Studio 54, the infamous nightspot that had [...]
Mr. Fingers' Cerebral Hemispheres comes out April 13 on Alleviated Music. Marc Sethi/Courtesy of the artist As you make your way through all 100+ minutes of Cerebral Hemispheres, Larry Heard's first album of new music released as Mr. Fingers in almost a quarter-century, the thing that may prove most startling is the variety. The house music sound [...]
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“Give me flowers when I’m still living,” Frankie Knuckles once said, “because I won’t be able to enjoy them when I’m under the ground.” As true as that sentiment is, people from around the house music industry have been pouring out their love for the Boyd Jarvis, dance music pioneer and inspiration, whose death was announced this weekend. [...]
Home Deep House Stone cold classic, sold out vinyl and the first digital release of Atjazz's floor dub. 1999: We partied, we feared Y2K would change the world but had no real understanding of the keg of dynamite we had been standing on all along. “Gentrification” was a word that mostly sociologists and urban planners knew. Barely [...]
23 February 2018 Founded in 1989 by Mark Finkelstein and Gladys Pizarro, New York house music label Strictly Rhythm quickly established itself as one of dance music’s most successful and influential record labels of all time, and one which defined house music right throughout the ’90s. Home to such significant artists as Roger Sanchez, [...]
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