By Glen Williams Paris Brightledge is one founding house music member stemming back to the 1980s. His first release "It's Alright" became a catalyst for house music exposure across the world. Paris is a gifted and talented music artist with a signature trademark vocal style. Born in Chicago, IL, Paris [...]
Another wave of copyright-related bans could be on the way. Twitch's copyright problem won't go away. In an email shared by esports consultant Rod Breslau, the company warns that it recently received a batch of approximately 1,000 individual DMCA takedown notices. All of the claims involve archived broadcasts, with most featuring streamers listening to music [...]
Exploring the parallels between our world and the one that Kraftwerk proposed in 1981 Kraftwerk’s Computer World Kyle Carney May 10, 2021 | 11:42am ET Memory is subject to corruption, but some of us can still recall a very primitive era for personal computers. In the late seventies, early prototypes included the Apple II, Commodore [...]
Image: FSTVL. Back in normal times... AD Incredible scenes bouncing out of Miami are making the world’s dance music community sigh with envy. But it’s not just the music they’re in awe of – it’s the gig. Something we have seen precious little of, particularly in the US, for a good fourteen months. Michael [...]
RAFAEL MORAES - RECONNECTIONS Rafael Moraes Re-Connections By James Hall, an Owner/Editor at My House Radio 4-22-21 Q. Hey Rafael it truly is a pleasure to sit down with you. Your new hit solo album “Reconnection” is out!! How are you feeling about it and what inspired it? A. I’m very [...]
Styles like afrohouse, gqom and amapiano are thriving – but with ‘half--baked white kids getting a lot more airplay’, South Africa’s inequalities still hold the dance scene back/ Marcus Barnes Many people got their first taste of South African dance music this year via six Angolans dancing in their backyard, dinner plates in hand. Their [...]
House music originator Marshall Jefferson on how the rise of EDM has whitewashed dance music and crippled Black artists MARSHALL JEFFERSON 28 OCTOBER 2020 I remember being on a panel at the New Music Seminar with the late Tony Wilson called ‘America doesn’t respect its Black artists’. In the ready room I was told by Tony that [...]
Facebook is looking to clarify its rules around how creators are allowed to use music in their content, while it's also adding a new indicator in Facebook and Instagram live-streams to help people avoid potential copyright issues. As explained by Facebook: "We want to encourage musical expression on our platforms while also ensuring that we uphold our [...]
Chicago Based, Grammy Nominated Producer and DJ, Terry Hunter, will host his inaugural music festival, The Imagine No Music Festival which is a 5 day/4 night musical experience that will feature some of the hottest DJs and live performances in the genres of house and soul music coinciding with the 50th birthday celebration of Grammy Nominated DJ/producer, [...]
Exclusive: This Documentary Takes You Inside Amapiano, South Africa's Popular House Music Subgenre A new documentary titled 'SHAYA!' unpacks the incumbent subgenre. Sponsored content from Corona. SHAYA!, a 26-minute documentary which we are premiering here, unpacks amapiano's origins and profiles some of the subgenre's key players such as Kabza De Small, JazziDisciples, MFR Souls, Mark Khoza and others. Amapiano, [...]
