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Alison Limerick gives surprise performance of Where Love Lives at John Lewis Christmas launch party

Alison Limerick performed her iconic dance hit Where Love Lives at a star-studded bash to celebrate the John Lewis Christmas campaign.

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From breakbeats to the dance floor: How hip-hop and house revolutionized music and culture

There was a time when artists representing two of America’s biggest homegrown musical genres wouldn’t get a look in at the Grammys.

The Conversation

“I’ve got the 303 but I don’t know how to work it - it’s making all these crazy sounds!”: How a small group of Chicago producers invented house and changed music forever

“I’ve got the 303 but I don’t know how to work it - it’s making all these crazy sounds!”

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Relive (and relitigate) celebrity courtroom scandals, with Stacey Dooley and friends

The presenter and comedian Larry Dean dive into infamous legal fights in Famously … On Trial. Plus: five of the best clubbing podcasts

The Guardian - UK

Steve Ostrow, icon of gay nightlife, dies ages 91

Opera singer was also an entrepreneur who founded Continental Baths in New York, which championed DJs such as Larry Levan and Frankie Knuckles

The Guardian - UK

Things to do in Chicago Aug. 24-30: The Mix

A Jonas Brothers concert at Wrigley, a new ‘Little Shop of Horrors’ and a Frankie Knuckles festival are among the entertainment highlights of the week ahead.

Chicago Sun-Times

Explained: The music theory behind songs from Deadmau5, Floating Points and Frankie Knuckles

Let’s find out how progressions, melodies and compositional techniques have been deployed in electronic music from successful artists

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Festival y conferencia de música hacen homenaje al género de house

La música house ha permeado la cultura popular, gracias a artistas como Beyoncé y Drake, con sus álbumes más recientes.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago House Music Festival and Conference celebrates the birth, evolution of hometown genre

House music has permeated the mainstream, thanks to artists such as Beyoncé and Drake, whose most recent albums paid tribute to the form.

Chicago Sun-Times

Birthplace of house music one step away from landmark status

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 House Music.”

Chicago Sun-Times

Issue 396 of Future Music is out now

The secrets of songcraft – an electronic musician's guide to music theory. Plus: James Holden, Octave One, Lewis Thompson, Roland Jupiter X & much more!

MusicRadar

Juice WRLD, Frankie Knuckles murals mysteriously erased in West Loop

Neighbors had long complained about the visitors who came to see Juice WRLD mural, which had gone viral on social media and attracted international tourists. The man overseeing the murals says the city should have protected them.

Chicago Sun-Times

Petition in works to gain landmark status for Chicago site where DJ legend Frankie Knuckles made ‘house music’ popular

CHICAGO — When The Warehouse made the top seven list of most endangered buildings in Chicago facing possible demolition, preservationists sprung to action to save the West Loop industrial building where legendary DJ Frankie Knuckles elevated Chicago to a higher musical level with "house music."

Chicago Tribune

House music had its Black roots ripped up – now Drake and Beyoncé are reclaiming them

The world’s biggest Black stars have turned to the genre not to pander to white tastes – but to remind fans where it came from, says

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Sun-Times readers pick their essential Chicago House tracks: stream here

Sun-Times readers give their favorite Chicago House Tracks, making one incredible playlist you can stream here.

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