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Posted inMusic

The Chicago House Party levels up to ‘music festival’ for 2018

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil May 22, 2018August 18, 2021

The Chicago House Party levels up to ‘music festival’ for 2018, Andy Ortmann spends government money on subversive noise, and more.

Posted inBlogs

Activate:Chi aims to bring the music and nightlife biz into the resistance

by Lauren Styx February 17, 2017August 18, 2021

New activist group Activate:Chi wants to make political engagement easy, and it’s getting started with a party at the Virgin Hotel.

Posted inBlogs

Help dance-music outlet Mucho Culo get back on its feet this weekend

by Leor Galil January 15, 2016August 18, 2021

Subterranean hosts a benefit show for Mucho Culo, which was based out of a studio destroyed in a July fire.

Posted inMusic

Magical Beautiful signs off with one last album and a big merch giveaway

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil June 24, 2015August 18, 2021

Magical Beautiful signs off with one last album and a big merch giveaway, Smith Westerns spin-off Whitney drops a debut single, and more.

Posted inBlogs

Dance Mania’s finest producers DJ at Logan Arcade tomorrow

by Leor Galil February 24, 2015August 18, 2021

Prepare for the free show with Strut Records’ second compilation of material from the local label that birthed ghetto house.

Posted inBlogs

Stream Paul Johnson’s contribution to Strut’s forthcoming Dance Mania compilation

by Leor Galil February 5, 2014August 18, 2021

Johnson’s “Feel My M.F. Bass” is the kind of raw, raunchy house music that’ll get you on the dance floor.

Prussia, or Belvidere, in 1813, or maybe 1809. Anyway, the French and British face off.
Posted inArts & Culture

Napoleon is dynamite

by Aimee Levitt July 3, 2013August 19, 2021

The armies of Napoleon enthusiasts include cops, stockbrokers, historians—and a certain local rock critic.

Victor Parris Mitchell and Ray Barney of Dance Mania Records near Barney's home in North Lawndale
Posted inMusic

The return of Dance Mania Records

by Leor Galil May 23, 2013August 19, 2021

Dance Mania Records helped birth ghetto house, juke, and footwork music—now it’s back to court the EDM crowd.

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.

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