I can’t imagine summer in Chicago without the Chosen Few Picnic & Festival, and that’s not just because this grassroots house-music gathering is celebrating its 30th annual installment (plus two years online during the pandemic). It’s also because house music—and Chicago—would be very different if it weren’t for the Chosen Few DJ collective. Chicago’s gay […]
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The Chosen Few Picnic & Festival comes to everybody’s backyards
For its 30th anniversary, one of the world’s largest house-music parties has been pushed online by the pandemic—but it might reach even more people that way.
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The Reader’s stay-at-home chronicles: days eight and nine
What we’re reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.
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Forest Management drops an ambient record made from Debussy vinyl
Forest Management drops an ambient record made from Debussy vinyl, the Chosen Few celebrate the legacy of Sauer’s with a Thanksgiving house and disco party, and more.
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Grün Wasser diversify their apocalyptic EBM on the new Not OK With Things
Grün Wasser diversify their apocalyptic EBM on the new Not OK With Things, the Chicago South Side Film Festival celebrates house music with a documentary by Jesse Saunders, and more.
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Photos: The grill masters of the Chosen Few Picnic
The grill masters of the Chosen Few Picnic are the fans who feed the fans.
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The Chosen Few Picnic is the homegrown festival every Chicagoan should attend
If you’ve ever wished that more music festivals were like family picnics, then you need to go to this Jackson Park house-music blowout. In the late 80s, DJs and brothers Tony and Andre Hatchett and their families began hosting an annual Fourth of July reunion barbecue behind the Museum of Science and Industry. For the […]
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Does Chicago have too many music festivals?
Lollapalooza’s ticket sales have slowed, and Reggae Fest and Chicago Open Air are canceled—are these the growth pangs of a healthy but crowded festival market, or is a crash on the way?
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Husband of alderman, majoral donor possibly facing fines of more than $750K for improper lobbying of the mayor, and other Chicago news
Also, Chance the Rapper is bringing sign language interpreters on tour.
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Industrial supergroup Pigface celebrates 25 years of revolving-door lineups
Industrial supergroup Pigface celebrates 25 years of revolving-door lineups, the Chosen Few DJs honor a bygone house-music club, and more.
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Warm up for this weekend’s Chosen Few Music Festival with DJ Alan King’s latest late-night mix
Between working as a partner at a law firm and helping the Chosen Few Picnic expand to two days, Alan King found the time to make his monthly Late Night Sessions mix for June.
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Frankie Knuckles’s vinyl gets a permanent public home
Theaster Gates’s Rebuild Foundation is about to open the Stony Island Arts Bank, whose collections will include 5,000 records the Godfather of House used in his world-changing mixes.
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An oral history of the Chosen Few Picnic, the ‘Woodstock of house music’
How a family Fourth of July party grew into an annual event that attracts more than 40,000 fans
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Noisy indie rockers Geronimo! take their last leap
Noisy indie rockers Geronimo! take their last leap, Boiler Room Chicago honors Frankie Knuckles, and more.
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Reader’s Agenda Thu 1/30: Out at CHM, Friends and Family Cocktail Challenge, and Drinking Gourd
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Thursday, January 30