To mark the ostensible 40th anniversary of Chicago house music, Derrick Carter and DJ Heather will headline a free event at Chicago’s Daley Plaza, which begins at noon on May 29. House Music 40 has teamed with the Arc Music Festival to produce the event, which Mother Diva will host. It’s the first of several events the city is hosting to celebrate the anniversary.
The event is part of House Music 40’s mission to remind people of the influence of Chicago house music and to raise money for DJs, artists,...
The event is part of House Music 40’s mission to remind people of the influence of Chicago house music and to raise money for DJs, artists,...
- 5/15/2024
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
In The Early Days of house music, nobody hustled harder than Vince Lawrence.
Vince grew up on the South Side of Chicago. As a teenager in the late 1970s and early 1980s, he was urbane and in the know: He liked Izod shirts, white K-Swiss sneakers, and straight-leg jeans; he ran hip parties, loved import records from Europe, and aspired to make music of his own. A lot of what he and his friends were into, he remembers, “came from us reading GQ and wishing we were rich.”
Around then,...
Vince grew up on the South Side of Chicago. As a teenager in the late 1970s and early 1980s, he was urbane and in the know: He liked Izod shirts, white K-Swiss sneakers, and straight-leg jeans; he ran hip parties, loved import records from Europe, and aspired to make music of his own. A lot of what he and his friends were into, he remembers, “came from us reading GQ and wishing we were rich.”
Around then,...
- 4/12/2023
- by Oli Coleman
- Rollingstone.com
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