The sessions will take place at FOLD and give priority to Black and Queer musical creatives. London-based Black and queer/trans led collective, Black Obsidian Soundsystem, have announced that they will be providing gratuitous DJ and production sessions at FOLD in Canning Town, London. The workshops are part of an effort to contribute to an “ecosystem that stretches beyond nepotism”, [...]
“The Warehouse,” at 206 S. Jefferson St., regarded as the birthplace of house music, could be granted historic landmark status by the city as early as Wednesday. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Time From 1977 through the mid-1980s, the resident DJ at the Warehouse was Frankie Knuckles, a record producer and remix artist hailed as the “Godfather of [...]
The City of Chicago has announced the full line-up for the 2023 Chicago House Music Festival and Conference taking place on June 23 and June 24, 2023. The city previously announced that this year’s festival will be taking place on the Humboldt Park Boathouse lawn on June 24, 2023 from 11am to 9pm. The initial line-up [...]
From banging cuts for the ballroom to surprisingly tasteful early big room house, these tracks expose the genre's roots in queer American club cultures. House music is gay music. The sound emerged from the queer black and latinx club cultures of New York and Chicago in the ’80s. Strangely, these roots of the culture are not very well [...]
A new era of the rave underground - led by femme and queer POC DJs and collectives – is popping off in Los Angeles. Star Eyes and Bianca Oblivion of the Warp Mode crew clue us in It started in early summer 2021, with renegade punk raves under bridges and in parking lots, wild 200 [...]
GEMMA ROSS, 9 MARCH 2023 The BBC radio broadcaster has just debuted her new imprint and platform UTOPIA Following the launch of her cross-disciplinary platform UTOPIA in 2020, DJ and BBC radio broadcaster Jaguar has announced the introduction of her new eponymous imprint. The label’s launch came last Wednesday with a debut release from Scotland’s Van Damn titled [...]
Thirty years after the singer-songwriter hit the scene with 'Gypsy Woman,' Crystal Waters talks about new music with BET. From Drake’s controversial Honestly, Nevermind to the perfection Beyoncé laid through RENAISSANCE, the summer of 2022 was a standout year for House music. The return of repetitive 4-on-the-floor beats, hard bass drums, addictive basslines, and everything in between marked a serious return [...]
While diversifying DJ lineups has recently received plenty of attention efforts to increase the number of non-males releasing. music has so far lagged behind. We meet some of the people and organizations trying to change this Before Leah Chisholm started making music as LP Giobbi, she was recruited into an all-women electronic band in [...]
By Asiya Ali For this Black History Month US and LGBT History Month, we're celebrating the rich roots of house music and the Black and Queer DJs who helped create it. There's a strong impression that House music has become synonymous with whiteness. This is obviously due to the genre being spearheaded by mostly white, [...]
Fashion’s Favorite DJ on Crossing Cultural Borders Interview: Adam Wray Photography: Benjamin Huseby “You could drop this in London and it would be the same,” says Honey Dijon, gesturing around the interior of The Apparatus Room. Nestled in the lobby of the Foundation Hotel in downtown Detroit, the lounge projects a specific sort of made-for-Instagram bougieness, [...]
