My House Radio Exclusive Interview with Oscar P

By |2023-07-31T23:00:49-05:00July 31st, 2023|Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, Detroit, Entertaiment, House, House Music, Interviews, Promotional, San Diego|

From August 11-13, West Coast Weekender will join forces with Charivari Detroit to bring us the Charivari Detroit Music Festival at Historic Fort Wayne in Detroit. Today, we are fortunate to have an opportunity to connect with the legendary and prolific Oscar P! Oscar, thank you so much for agreeing to share a few [...]

Where Is House Music at Home? Check out 7 Destinations Rich in Black House History (The Grio)

By |2023-07-23T09:37:50-05:00July 23rd, 2023|African American, Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Ibiza, manchester UK, New Jersey, New York|

Visit these destinations to experience and understand the enduring power, prevalence and history of Black house music.  As many already know, house music has always been heralded in Black and marginalized communities, and like many musical genres, it originated at a time when collective frustrations were high. While many identify the genre with the 1980s, [...]

ULTRA NATÉ LAUNCHES PODCAST SERIES ON THE WORLD’S GREATEST NIGHTCLUBS (MIXMAG)

By |2023-07-19T17:52:27-05:00July 19th, 2023|Announcements, Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, Detroit, Entertaiment, House, House Music, House Music History, MixMAg, Music News, My House Radio, New York, Women|

The 12-part series documents the history of some of the most iconic clubs around the world A new podcast series scoping the history of some of the world’s greatest nightclubs has landed on Apple Podcasts from iHeart Radio, hosted by Ultra Naté. The 12-part series, titled The History of the World’s Greatest Nightclubs, is set to look at iconic [...]

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 [...]

Charivari Detroit Music Festival celebrates 10th anniversary (Electronic Groove)

By |2023-06-22T22:07:46-05:00June 22nd, 2023|Announcements, Dance Music, Detroit, electronic music, House, House Music, news, Promotional|

From August 11-13 at the Fort Wayne Park, featuring a lineup of more than 40 artists. The Charivari Detroit Music Festival will commemorate its 10th anniversary this August. The three-day festival will take place from August 11-13 at a new location, the Historic Fort Wayne Park. The festival will feature a lineup of over 40 artists and DJs, including [...]

MOVEMENT FESTIVAL IS A CELEBRATION OF TECHNO’S PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE (MIXMAG)

By |2023-06-06T19:07:25-05:00June 6th, 2023|Detroit, DJ, electronic music, Music News, Report, Review, Techno|

  Held in Detroit, the birthplace of techno, the three-day festival should be on every clubber’s bucket list On Memorial Day weekend in Detroit this year, Kenny Dixon Jr. was on a mission. Better known as Moodymann, one of the city’s most beloved producers was out to spread the gospel about another legendary local, an architect of Detroit techno. “If y’all [...]

Reggie Dokes: The Searcher (5 Magazine)

By |2023-05-20T12:05:46-05:00May 20th, 2023|5 Magazine, Biography, Detroit, DJ, electronic music, Interviews|

  Reggie Dokes is a producer, a DJ, a composer for films and a 100% pure Detroit electronic music artist. Though he’s released records on influential labels and played big shows in cities around the world, Reggie is at heart a seeker, a follower in the tradition of great Black diaspora seekers like Sun Ra. His [...]

DJ Minx to DJ at the Detroit Pistons’ final home basketball game of the season (DJ Mag)

By |2023-04-05T17:26:35-05:00April 5th, 2023|Announcements, Detroit, DJ, DJ Mag, House, House Music, news, Women|

    It's part of a collaboration between the basketball team and Detroit's Movement Festival. DJ Minx is set to DJ at basketball team Detroit Pistons' final home game of the season. Taking place on 5th April, when the Pistons take on Brooklyn Nets, the special DJ set is part of a collaboration between the [...]

Celebrating Black History Month with House & Techno (6AM)

By |2023-02-19T11:22:35-06:00February 19th, 2023|African American, black History Month, Chicago, Clubs - Nightlife, Dance Music, Detroit, DJ, House, House Music, House Music History, Techno|

Author : 6AM February 10, 2023 Celebrating Black History Month With House & Techno The contribution of Black artists in house and techno are undeniable and pervasive. In fact, the bedrock of electronic music owes much of its legacy to Black artists. From Chicago and Detroit, the cities that started it all, its local pioneers wove dance music culture’s fabric that now stretches [...]

UNCOVERING MOODYMANN’S DETROIT HIP HOP ORIGINS (MIXMAG)

By |2023-02-17T22:39:06-06:00February 17th, 2023|African American, black History Month, Detroit, DJ, House, House Music, House Music History, MixMAg, Moodymann, producer|

Moodymann is famed as one of the greatest house music artists of all time, but his roots as a hip hop producer are less well known. Patrick Hinton speaks to Kenny Dixon Jr. and his former rap collaborator K-Stone to find out more WORDS: PATRICK HINTON | K-STONEY JAMM PHOTO: PHYLLIS PLUMBER | IN ASSOCIATION [...]

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