Your Guide to Record Store Day in Chicago: House Music Edition
Bargains & beats, DJs and drinks: Record Store Day is Saturday, April 20, 2013, and here's a very House Music-centered guide to getting it on in Chicago:
Easy to forget, but when Record Store...
Unconscious Therapy, New House Music Documentary, Debuts in Chicago (Video)
Centuries (okay, a few years) ago, Steven Harnell began recording footage for something tentatively given the very tentative title of An Untitled Documentary About House Music. A few people asked me about it, but...
Vincent Montana, Jr., Pioneer of the Philadelphia Sound, Passed Away Today
We first heard it from a Facebook post from Jellybean, and it looks like the news is true. Vincent Montana Jr, a producer, arranger, conductor, musician, founder of the Disco era Salsoul Orchestra and...
Todd Edwards To Join Daft Punk for Random Access Memories Album
News about Daft Punk's forthcoming Random Access Memories - at this point, the most anticipated album in electronic music since... probably the last Daft Punk album - continues to dribble out. After the first...
George Clinton and P-Funk in Chicago April 28 2013
The awesome power of a fully operational mothership is back on the road for you to touch, to feel but most of all to pound on your eardrums like a xylophone, and added a...
We Lost Another Hero: Scott Hardkiss, 1969-2013
They say that if you live long enough you'll write obituaries for all of your heroes. But this is getting to be an awful task.
Big Shot Magazine is reporting (and two people I've spoken...
You Can’t Get Enough of Josh Wink’s Balls
Philadelphia's Josh Wink is releasing his first EP in four years on his acclaimed Ovum label.
"Balls", the sprawling title track, is a return of sorts to the rugged 303-based material he released in...
Mark de Clive-Lowe’s Remix:Live Isn’t the Future But It Should Be
Live events. Not to put too fine a point on it, but they suck.
If you're already a fan, watching your favorite DJ/producer rip his gear out of the studio and transport it on stage...
Eat It, Celebrity DJs: Giorgio Moroder to Perform First Ever Live DJ Set
It was one of the strange paradoxes of the disco era that two of the giants - two of the people whose innovations were so breathtaking that you can segment music as it existed...
MK Recreates a Remix on Camera for Native Instruments
File Under: Educational. Promoting Native Instruments' Maschine, MK walks us through the process of creating his remixes for Storm Queen's (aka Morgan Geist) 2010 smash "Look Right Through".
Beatport Sold to EDM Mogul Robert FX Sillerman
With faceless artists making disposable tracks based on anonymous samples for a dishonest percentage of a pathetic gross, it's somehow appropriate that Beatport has a new owner who has declined comment and will probably...
Remembering Sugarfoot: The Ohio Players’ Frontman Passes Away at Age 69
And so we read the sad news this morning that Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner, frontman for the Ohio Players who inspired three generations of House, Hip Hop and Soul musicians, passed away over the weekend....
Electric Daisy Carnival Expands to Midwest – The Same Weekend as DEMF
Insomniac, the promoters behind the Electric Daisy Carnival, have announced that their festival is expanding to Chicago - the same weekend traditionally set aside by Midwest promoters for Movement (formerly and still widely known...
Frankie Knuckles Begins Chicago Residency This Sunday at Queen
Someone with fewer fried brain cells than I will have to answer the question of when Frankie Knuckles last had a residency in Chicago (it's certainly happened since the PowerPlant, hasn't it?)
But he has...
A Week After Blasting All and Sundry, Dope Jams NYC Closes Up
It's appropriate that though we have the words of the ownership verbatim, I'm still not sure this isn't a hoax.
Dope Jams, Paul Nickerson and Francis Englehardt's record store in Brooklyn that mixed black wax...
Love Is Still The Message: The Gallery 1977 on DVD
We have a lot of retrospectives, a lot of interviews, a lot of tributes and talismans of respect paid forward but not so many primary documents of the underground disco scene at its peak...
Cop Jeremy Sylvester’s Sound in Back to 95 Producer Pack Volume 3
If you're going to use sample pack beats, you may as well go to the source. Both Rick Wade and, to the point of this piece, friend of 5 Mag Jeremy Sylvester have dropped...
Danny Krivit Celebrates 10 Years of 718 Sessions
Danny Krivit, who played for his first dancefloor four years before I was born, is celebrating a number of milestones this month. In preparation for one of them, Nervous Records is releasing a new...
For Your Consideration: House For Hope, Hurricane Sandy Relief in NYC This Saturday
They say you can tell a lot about a person based upon what he does in a time of crisis. If that's also true of communities, it says a lot about House Music to...
BENJI: Chicago House Music History… on ESPN
The best documentary about Chicago House Music is contained in a 5 minute segment of a film about a basketball player.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esCHW1ylEHQ
Benji is a feature documentary from film making tandem Coodie and Chike which made...
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Dedication: To Juan Atkins
There was never a moment before today that Juan Atkins was not a vital part of the American electronic music scene.
