NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Shimmy Jiyane and Latroit about their new project to reimagine classic House tracks to tell the story of the roots of the genre – translated and sung by the choir in Zulu.
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Chicago is getting ready to celebrate 40 years as the birthplace of house music. On Tuesday, the city revealed plans for the big anniversary, turning Daley Plaza into a dance party.
Daley Plaza dance party celebrates 40 years of house music in Chicago, music fest planned for June 2
CHICAGO (WLS) -- A lunchtime dance party in Daley Plaza celebrated 40 years of Chicago's most famous music genre, house. A live DJ spun the same tunes Chicagoans have been dancing to for decades.
Since the 2010s, electronic dance music (EDM) has become one of the largest and most popular sectors of the music industry, with festivals and record sales netting billions of dollars each year. EDM ...
With a deafening bass and hues of neon colors dancing across the walls, Gainesville locals celebrated the end of syllabus week with a bang. Over 100 fans of house and electronic-dance music crowded ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- The unmistakable sound of house music echoes throughout the South Loop on a picture perfect Saturday morning. "It's a workout for me, it's friendship it's the love of music," said ...
A group of Chicago friends plant the seeds of house music. In search of a party scene like the one they encountered at New York’s warehouse parties, a group of Chicago friends plant the seeds for ...
The Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) presents several free downtown fests that celebrate distinctly Chicagoan styles of music with long local histories—Blues Fest, Jazz Fest, ...
House music typically thumps at 120-130 beats per minute, in 4/4 time. That’s an awfully clinical description of the sound that shakes the floor and the walls at dance clubs around the world. What’s ...
American Stories celebrates the house music genre on its 40th anniversary. On the 40th anniversary of its invention in Chicago, celebrate the house music genre that was born in Chicago’s underground ...
On a breezy Saturday evening in South L.A., the sounds of heavy kick drums and electric claps trail down the block from a tan, two-story house with a well-manicured lawn. Through the large front ...
British painter Peter Doig brings his rhythmic, dreamlike art to life at London’s Serpentine gallery, where painting, sound and film merge—with Brian Eno among the featured performers. “Music has ...
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