Thirty years after his death, the creator of the classic Pride anthem You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) is the subject of academic symposia. Not bad for a drag queen who was ‘just trying to get on to the radio’ On a sunny Thursday afternoon, the theatre at the University of Sussex is playing host to [...]
https://youtu.be/d8Y9RLS9YQ4 This collection of recordings represent a segment of artists whose efforts, together and individually, cemented the city of Chicago as the locale where the era's most creative innovation in dance music was taking place. These producers, being cultural products of the initial House Music indoctrination of the '80s, show off many different sides [...]
Like a modern version of a medieval minstrel, a singer named Jess Magic is helping A-list entrepreneurs get in touch with their inner child in private “songversations.” Jess Magic, far right, guides her spiritual disciples at Soul Salon. CreditZak Krevitt for The New York Times To Chad Mureta, a Silicon Valley app guru, the [...]
Bless this acid house: dancing in face masks and white gloves. Photograph: Matthew Smith/Rex/Shutterstock It was the year I got my first job, the year I broke up with my boyfriend, the year I flew to Barbados and met Imran Khan on a beach, but of all the crazy life-changing moments, none had more impact [...]
What does house music have to do with White Sox baseball? In the beginning, there was Jack, and Jack had a groove. And from this groove came the groove of all grooves. And while one day viciously throwing down on his box, Jack boldy declared, ‘Let there be HOUSE!’ and House Music was born. About [...]
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 [...]
Jalal Mansur Nuriddin of the Last Poets in London in 1984. He delivered some of the group’s most urgent and incisive verses.CreditDavid Corio/Redferns, via Getty Images By Giovanni Russonello June 13, 2018 Jalal Mansur Nuriddin, who helped establish the foundation for hip-hop as a member of the Last Poets and in his own solo [...]
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 [...]
DECLAN MCGLYNN WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 2018 Beatport will soon be allowing users to stream their catalogue to DJ software. As we reported earlier this year, electronic music streaming platform was acquired by Beatport, leading the way for a transition from download store to streaming platform. Beatport did launch it's own Spotify-esque electronic music listening streaming service, [...]
Phil Morse May 15, 2018 | Read time: 3 mins Forbes reports today that interactive streaming music services – Spotify, Apple Music, Napster, Deezer, Tidal and so on — now account for the majority of recorded music industry revenue and are growing at better than 50% per year. The numbers, they report, say that the download [...]