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Your Guide to Record Store Day in Chicago: House Music Edition

Tweet   Bargains & beats, DJs and drinks: Record Store Day is Saturday, April 20, 2013, and here’s a very House Music-centered guide to getting it on in Chicago: Easy to forget, but when Record Store Day was conceived six … Continue reading

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George Clinton and P-Funk in Chicago April 28 2013

Tweet   The awesome power of a fully operational mothership is back on the road for you to touch, to feel but most of all to pound on your eardrums like a xylophone, and added a Chicago date to the … Continue reading

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Electric Daisy Carnival Expands to Midwest – The Same Weekend as DEMF

Tweet MK at Movement, 2012   Insomniac, the promoters behind the Electric Daisy Carnival, have announced that their festival is expanding to Chicago – the same weekend traditionally set aside by Midwest promoters for Movement (formerly and still widely known … Continue reading

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BENJI: Chicago House Music History… on ESPN

Tweet   The best documentary about Chicago House Music is contained in a 5 minute segment of a film about a basketball player.     Benji is a feature documentary from film making tandem Coodie and Chike which made its … Continue reading

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Rick Wade. Chicago. Why Aren’t You Excited About This?

Tweet   Sir Rick. If you’ve read anything I’ve written on the subject, it’s self-explanatory. If you haven’t, “Sir Rick” is Rick Wade, one of Detroit’s tireless bodymovers and a Deep House warrior with as many scalps on his belt … Continue reading

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12,065 Days: Disco Demolition Night and House Music’s Return

Tweet   You can’t mention Chicago and House Music without coming back to Disco Demolition Night, the infamous publicity stunt gone wrong on July 12, 1979 at Comiskey Park in Chicago in which radio disc jockey Steve Dahl poked at … Continue reading

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