House music pioneer Farley Jackmaster Funk is throwing the first pitch at the Chicago Cubs game this Friday, August 16, at Wrigley Field. The DJ and producer’s pitch is part of Chicago’s 40 Years Of House Music celebrations around the city. Mayor Johnson has acknowledged Farley’s contributions with a proclamationContinue Reading
Detroit’s Delano Smith and sillygirlcarmen release their Play EP. The cross-generational collaboration is a musical appetizer of three infectious house tracks currently heating up the playlists of Detroit’s ace brigade of dance music DJs. Smith’s history as a pre-techno architect and disciple of Detroit’s house Godfather Ken Collier is heard inContinue Reading
House music pioneer Frankie Knuckles’ collection of 5,000 vinyl albums has been digitized. The job was completed on the 10th anniversary of his passing by members of the Theaster Gates Rebuild Foundation. Knuckles made house music a cultural force as the DJ at Chicago’s Warehouse Club and then the PowerContinue Reading
Detroit DJ, producer, and musician Andrés has released Andrés V on Moodymann’s Mahogani Music. The former Slum Village DJ started releasing house music on Kenny Dixon Jr.’s label in the early 2000s. He has kept his hip-hop work mostly under his DJ Dez moniker but V blends both aesthetics andContinue Reading