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- Best of Chicago, Music & Nightlife Mar 17, 2021
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Old-school musicians beat lockdown with new-school platforms
Veteran DJ Vince Adams and nonagenarian bluesman Jimmy Johnson both took to livestreaming during the pandemic.
- Music, Music Feature Jul 23, 2020
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Thirty-five moments that brought Chicago music to the world
The Year of Chicago Music has had less music in it than anybody anticipated, but we still have plenty to celebrate.
- Music, Music Feature May 19, 2020
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Lori Branch’s greatest moments in Chicago music history
The pioneering house DJ shouts out her fellow Windy City originators, including Chaka Khan and Sister Rosetta Tharpe.
- Music, Concert Preview Dec 13, 2019
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International dance veterans Tama Sumo and Lakuti know the best routes through music’s past and present
- Music, Music Feature Nov 20, 2019
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Life was just a party: Prince’s 1999 and Chicago house music
The Purple One could hardly have avoided influencing a genre whose earliest, most ardent fans were queer Black and Brown kids.
- Best of Chicago, Music & Nightlife Nov 6, 2019
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Staff Pick: Best house music DJ
Duane Powell
- Music, Music Feature Sep 16, 2019
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The B-52s gave Chicago one last gift at Riot Fest
Even if they really are retiring from the road, they’ve left a permanent mark on the city through their influence on house music.
- Music, Music Feature Aug 19, 2019
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Photos from the 3 Yards Bangin’ House Fest
The three backyards where this party started aren't big enough for Chicagoans' love of house—so now the festival happens on a blocked-off street next to a high school.
- Music, Music Feature Aug 5, 2019
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Photos from DJ Clent’s Beatdown House Litnic
Some of the biggest names in ghetto house, juke, and footwork played for free at a relaxed party and cookout in Dolton Park.
- Music, Music Feature Jul 9, 2019
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Kaina gives her soulful R&B the intimacy of real and chosen family
The Chicago singer-songwriter’s debut album takes its strength from her favorite people: her friends and collaborators, her childhood mentors, her immigrant parents.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Jun 17, 2019
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Local producers Tensei create an electronic canvas of astral soul
Plus: Chicago house producer Derrick “Sleezy D” Harris passes away, and Philip Bailey of Earth, Wind & Fire plays two shows behind his new solo album.
- Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Jun 4, 2019
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Disco diva Loleatta Holloway got a second wind from house music
She had her biggest hits in the late 70s, but the rise of sampling helped keep her on the charts for decades longer.
- Music, Music Feature May 21, 2019
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Plugging into Chicago’s forgotten house venues
For decades, house music has shaped pop worldwide—but many of the spaces that birthed it here disappeared so quickly they barely left a trace.
- Music, Music Feature Feb 28, 2019
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Marcus Mixx has lost his home, but he still has house
While his early records fetch hundreds of dollars apiece from a cult of collectors, he just wants a space of his own to make his new tracks.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 29, 2018
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DJ Duane Powell follows his ‘inner-gy’
The 41-year-old's style combines Afrofuturism, house, and more.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Jul 17, 2018
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RIP to beloved Chicago house DJ and producer Sean Haley
Plus: Punk Rock and Donuts throws a Pilsen Reads! benefit, local pop-rock band Bike Cops celebrate their debut full-length, and more.
- Music, Music Feature Jul 5, 2018
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Chicago label Still Music rescues decades of house history from a south-side storage locker
Jerome Derradji is restoring dozens of decaying reel-to-reel tapes and releasing their contents—including unissued tracks and DJ mixes from some of the genre’s early giants.
- Music, Music Feature Oct 18, 2017
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Star Creature Universal Vibrations transfigures boogie for the 21st century
Tim Zawada and Ben Van Dyke’s label helps turn the far-flung fans of this resurgent postdisco dance music into an evolving community.
- Music, The Secret History of Chicago Music Sep 11, 2017
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Master Plan fused Chicago house music with Latin freestyle in the mid-80s
Pepper Gomez and Tom O'Callaghan got their start as Master Plan by winning a Columbia College contest, and three years ago Still Music reissued their biggest track.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 18, 2017
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Cowboy poetry, the decline of the critic, Lil Wayne’s boring prison memoir, and more: the week in music writing
The Reader collects some of the best and brightest bits from the past week's music writing.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Aug 15, 2016
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Gossip Wolf premieres Soft Candy’s new garage-psych single
Plus: The 3 Yards Bangin’ House Fest returns to the southeast side, and Bassel & the Supernaturals celebrate a new indie-soul release.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 31, 2015
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Frankie Knuckles tribute wall in Logan Square is being buffed
The mural dedicated to the late Chicago DJ lasted 415 days in Logan Square.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 18, 2014
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House DJ Wayne Williams will soundtrack your lunch break tomorrow at the Cultural Center
The Chosen Few Picnic founder plays DCASE's Wired Fridays tomorrow at noon.
- Blogs, Bleader May 23, 2013
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Exploring Dance Mania's old inventory in Ray Barney's basement
Explore Ray Barney's basement, which is filled with old back stock from his in-demand and soon-to-be-revived dance label, Dance Mania.
- Blogs, Bleader May 23, 2013
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12 O'Clock Track: Classixx's "Hanging Gardens," by way of Risky Business
The title track from the LA dance duo's Hanging Gardens, out now on Innovative Leisure