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Red Bull Music Festival Reunites Generations of the Gramaphone Records Family

Red Bull and Metro/Smartbar honor 50 years of disc jockeys that have patrolled the counters of the legendary Chicago dance music mecca Gramaphone Records.

Born Into This: Chicago House with Stripped & Chewed Records

Every city needs a record label like Stripped & Chewed Records. Chicago is just lucky enough to have the original.

Chicago’s Heart & Soul: Remembering Darrell Woodson

DJ, producer, inspirational figure and house music sage of Chicago, DJ Darrell Woodson has died.

Record Store Day at Gramaphone Records!

All your jaded tweets about Record Store Day have come true. But there are still some places where the original spirit flies and Gramaphone Records is one of them.

Bell Boys Kick Out the (Very Slow) Jams on Star Creature

Chicago DJ, producer and impresario Tim Zawada and Ben Van Dyke have teamed up for an intriguing new label. "Star Creature" has released three records,...

Garrett David’s A New Room on Gramaphone Records

The good people of Chicago really don’t need an Englishman to talk to them about a local institution like Gramaphone Records, any more than...

Gramaphone Records Relaunches Gramaphone Records

Last month we wrote about Kevin Starke, whose Kstarke Records store lends its name to his in-house record label. This month, Chicago’s Gramaphone has...

Love Train and the Lost History of a Chicago House Classic

Four thousand, five hundred and twenty eight miles from Chicago - in Milan, Italy, the town he grew up in and which he still...

Where To Buy House Music in Chicago

It's a cliche, but buying music these days is something more commonly done behind a computer, in isolation, than in person and in your...

Mark Farina: The Art of the Mix

There's not a DJ in House Music that's had more success with commercial DJ mixes than Mark Farina. Here's how the Mushroom Jazz man does it.

Michael Serafini: The 5 Magazine Interview

FOR THE HOUSE MUSIC faithful there are few places on the planet more sacred than Gramaphone Records. For decades it has been the source...

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The Sound of Tomorrow: Tom Roberts on the launch of Cyphon...

Freerange and Delusions of Grandeur add a new sibling to the label family. Tom Roberts on the launch of Cyphon Recordings.