Jesse Saunders and Vince Lawrence are among the interviewees featured in the 90-minute film A new documentary digging into the queer Black origins of house premiered at Sundance Film Festival last month. Directed by filmmaker Elegance Bratton, Move Ya Body: The Birth Of House looks at the infamous 1979 Disco Demolition night and its bearing on the [...]
We chat to some of Soho House’s music friends – Carl Craig, Juan Atkins, Norman Jay MBE and Giles Smith (Secretsundaze) – to get their take on dance music and the inspirational figures that made our playlist this month Listen here With a nod to Black History Month, our new Dance Music Is Black [...]
As house music spread beyond its Chicago birthplace in the late 1980s, no city soaked up the sound quite as eagerly as New York. This was in a large part down to an ecosystem of promoters, labels, record shops and artists that extends far beyond the accepted canon of major-name DJs and producers. Here, Bruce [...]
Image courtesy of Google House Music and its legendary Black creators from Chicago got the ultimate shout-out to start Black History Month. On Saturday, Feb. 1, Google highlighted the genre with a Doodle on its search engine. “In celebration of Black History Month, today’s music video Doodle, celebrates house music, a genre with roots in Chicago’s [...]
The April 26th event at The Ramova Theater will be the first of its kind in the city. A new electronic music conference is coming to Chicago this spring, a first-of-its-kind event for the city. The aptly-titled Chicago Electronic Music Conference will take place at The Ramova Theatre on April 26th. It's designed [...]
Director Elegance Bratton and producers Roger Ross Williams and Chester Algernal Gordon visited the IndieWire Studio, presented by Dropbox, to discuss the joyful music that inspired their documentary. Elegance Bratton’s documentary “Move Ya Body,” which tracks both the artistic evolution of house music and its historical and sociopolitical impact, emerged from the unlikeliest of [...]
Chicago DJ and producer Elbert Phillips pays tribute to the late, legendary Frankie Knuckles with this extended and thoroughly dope classic tribute mix. This is also an intensely personal mix — Phillips was both a fan and a confidant of Frankie Knuckles, one of a small handful of DJs handpicked by FK to open for him at his own events [...]
Born on 18th January 1955, the late, great Frankie Knuckles' influence on dance music culture cannot be understated. 11 years since his tragic passing, Bruce Tantum marks what would have been the Godfather of House music's 70th birthday by selecting 20 tracks and mixes from across his long and storied career, mapping the legacy [...]
The second of two international events honoring 70 years since the birth of Frankie Knuckles takes place this Saturday in London. For Frankie, a tribute to the legendary Frankie Knuckles takes place at fabric in London from 2pm to 10pm this Saturday, January 25 2025. DJs scheduled to play include Chrissy T, CJ Mackintosh, Danism + Train, Deli G, Frankie’s Director [...]
Published from 1989-1993, the LGBTQIA+ magazine THING platformed artists like Frankie Knuckles, Larry Heard and Deee-Lite. A new anthology will celebrate the late, great THING, an LGBTQIA+ magazine that operated at the heart of Chicago's house scene in the early '90s. The new, 460-page book compiles all ten issues of THING for [...]