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Several marked up old house records scattered on purple velvet around an uncovered turntable
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Reading house’s history from its used records

by Leor Galil September 15, 2022December 23, 2022

Chicagoans don’t need an excuse to talk about house music, but when the biggest pop star in the world drops a record indebted to house, you can expect more than just a conversation. Beyoncé’s Renaissance has effectively evangelized for this Chicago-born sound since the album came out in July, not least because she shaped it […]

Posted inMusic

Vince Lawrence’s greatest moment in Chicago music history

by Vince Lawrence and Ayana Contreras June 9, 2020August 18, 2021

House-music pioneer Vince Lawrence remembers the huge scene-defining parties he helped throw as a teenager.

Posted inMusic

Life was just a party: Prince’s 1999 and Chicago house music

by Jack Riedy November 20, 2019October 24, 2022

Prince could hardly have avoided influencing Chicago house, whose earliest, most ardent fans were queer Black and Brown kids.

Posted inMusic

Grün Wasser diversify their apocalyptic EBM on the new Not OK With Things

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil September 24, 2019August 18, 2021

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.

Posted inMusic

Plugging into Chicago’s forgotten house venues

by Leor Galil May 21, 2019August 18, 2021

A tour and oral history of the long-gone spaces that birthed one of the foundational sounds in modern pop

Posted inMusic

Marcus Mixx has lost his home, but he still has house

by Leor Galil February 28, 2019August 18, 2021

Marcus Mixx’s early records fetch hundreds of dollars apiece from a cult of collectors, but he just wants a space of his own to make his new tracks.

Posted inMusic

Oldest black-owned nightclub in city faces uncertain future

by Dave Hoekstra May 2, 2018August 18, 2021

Harold Washington, Muhammad Ali, and Rick James all dropped in at Taste, the oldest black-owned nightclub in the city.

Posted inMusic

Entertainment lawyer Jay B. Ross fought for the people who made the music he loved

by Yana Kunichoff April 19, 2018August 18, 2021

An expert negotiator, he went to bat for stars as big as James Brown and Muddy Waters, but he also clawed back royalties for countless forgotten artists who’d never gotten their due.

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How the USA fell for EDM, chapter one

by Michaelangelo Matos April 29, 2015August 18, 2021

In these excerpts from his lively and meticulous new book, The Underground Is Massive: How Electronic Dance Music Conquered America, longtime Reader contributor Michaelangelo Matos chronicles the three-decade ascent of EDM.

Chicago house has been transformed by the globalization of electronic music in the digital age, but a mix from DJ Sneak still sounds familiar.
Posted inMusic

How Chicago house got its groove back

by Michaelangelo Matos May 3, 2012August 19, 2021

Chicago house music is the sound of global pop today. In the 90s, though, it was on life support—until a new wave of producers got its groove back.

Posted inMusic

Gossip Wolf: Texas Can Eat It

by Jessica Hopper and J.R. Nelson March 10, 2011August 19, 2021

A local DIY fest one-ups SXSW with free pizza. Plus: Lost Chicago house sounds come back around, Indie Parlour celebrates the ladies, and more

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The Best of the Rest

by Kevin Warwick July 30, 2010August 19, 2021

A day-by-day breakdown of the notable shows this week that aren’t already covered elsewhere in the Reader.

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