Tag: frankie knuckles

In the poetic and robust Chicago House Music: Culture and Community, Marguerite L. Harrold captures the history of house music with the eye of a scholar and the passion of a true believer.

The public artwork by artist Max Sansing pays tribute to Frankie Knuckles, house music in Chicago and cult house music label Gherkin Records.

DEL combs though his collection to pick the 17 most essential tracks remixed by the late, legendary disco icon, Walter Gibbons.

Elbert Phillips & Andre Espeut deliver a sensational cover of the Frankie Knuckles, Satoshi Tomiie and Robert Owens classic

The NYC singer and entrepreneur who gave Frankie Knuckles and Larry Levan an early gig passed away in Australia.

Legendary vocalist Kathy Brown's family has announced that her previously diagnosed lung cancer has spread to her brain. A GoFundMe campaign has been launched to support her.

There is one official Frankie Knuckles birthday party and it is held in Chicago. And this year it's at Metro & Smartbar.

The history of Chicago's 3 Degrees Global collective, representing a missing link in Chicago house music history as told by its members: Jeremiah Seraphine, Forever Monna, Julius The Mad Thinker, Dj-FLX, Priti Gandhi, BIGSEXY and Czboogie.

An enthusiastic City Council approved landmark designation for the building where Frankie Knuckles played and where house music was born in Chicago.

In Beyond Heaven, Mario Luna and publisher Brandon Johnson collect artwork from more than a decade of Chicago house music history, from the early days of legendary pioneers to lost icons of dance music.

Somebody painted over the Hubbard St. viaduct murals to Frankie Knuckles and Juice WRLD in Chicago. Nobody knows who, or why.

It was unanimous and if everything goes right The Warehouse will soon have landmark status in the city of Chicago.

A meeting this Thursday April 13 2023 will consider granting preliminary landmark status to the building that formerly housed The Warehouse, Frankie Knuckles' first Chicago residency where house music was born.

You have very little time to nab one of the few copies of 7th Heaven, Ron Trent's 2014 tribute to the late Frankie Knuckles.

A Chicago preservation group has listed the site of legendary house music club The Warehouse as one of Chicago's "7 most endangered" buildings and destinations for 2023.

Strictly Underground Music's DJ Deeka is the DJ for this week's featured mix for 5 Mag's RISE series.

The Guardian carries the story that the lawsuit by Larry Heard and Robert Owens against Trax Records has been settled.

Originally recorded in 1991, pioneering electronic music band Electribe 101's lost second album, Electribal Soul, is finally released.

For Frankie, the annual Foundation benefit is this Sunday at Metro / Smartbar with Ralphi Rosario, Kai Alce, Terisa Griffin, Czboogie, Derrick Carter, Michael Serafini and Garrett David.

"The State of Sound" is an exhibit showcasing Illinois artists from Miles Davis to Frankie Knuckles at the Abraham Lincoln presidential library in Springfield.