The Warehouse, Birthplace Of House Music, Is Now A Chicago Landmark

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• Check Out Chicago’s New Music Venue, Outset
• Farley "Jackmaster" Funk - "Love Can't Turn Around" (
• DCASE supports creatives and expands access to the arts throughout Chicago’s 77 neighborhoods.
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• House of Blues
• Scottie Pippen, Luc Longley and Horace Grant Will Discuss Michael Jordan and The '90s Chicago Bulls in "No Bull Tour"
• 'Night Moves'

Block Club Chicago is a nonprofit news organization dedicated to delivering reliable, nonpartisan and essential coverage of Chicago’s diverse neighborhoods. The main stage at Jay Pritzker Pavillion will host performers including Wayne Williams and Alan King of the Chosen Few DJs, Tony Touch, Ash Lauryn, Lori Branch and more. Grand Ave., with performers like Gene Hunt, Stacy Kidd, DeeJay Alicia, Sonny Daze and more. That day will also feature the Inaugural House Music Parade and Festival in the South Loop, led by Chicago legend DJ Farley Jackmaster Funk and Delece Williams.

Check Out Chicago’s New Music Venue, Outset

Presented in conjunction with the Taste of Chicago event in Humboldt Park, the House Music Festival brings a full day of DJs to the mainstage paired with more than 20 Chicago food vendors from across the city. “We are excited to expand access to free cultural programs into neighborhoods, finding exciting opportunities to ‘mashup’ popular annual events and create more memorable experiences for our audiences,” shared DCASE Commissioner Erin Harkey. Alderpeople also approved a landmark designation Wednesday for Edgewater’s Epworth Church, 5253 N. The commission approved final landmark status for The Warehouse earlier this month with the backing of preservation groups, local officials and house fans from the around the world.

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There are all these ways in which the world and society cuts off access, discriminates, is anti-Black, is racist. And culture is a space where folks of color, Black folks, have really loudly resisted all of these efforts to silence, to make less human, to make less complex.

DCASE supports creatives and expands access to the arts throughout Chicago’s 77 neighborhoods.

This immersive dance music celebration showcases house DJs as well as techno and other genres at the fest and at after-parties around the city. Many of the songs that defined the Chicago house music sound were released primarily on vinyl by the labels DJ International Records and Trax Records, both of which had distribution outside of Chicago, leading to house's popularity in other cities, including New York and London. Following Chicago's Disco Demolition Night in mid-1979, disco music's mainstream popularity fell into decline. In the early 1980s, fewer and fewer disco records were being released, but the genre remained popular in some Chicago nightclubs and on at least one radio station, WBMX-FM. A stunning showcase for the arts, this massive landmark building in the heart of downtown Chicago houses exhibits year round, while its halls come alive with the sound of music each week.

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Meanwhile, on the North Promenade of the Park, Slo ‘Mo / Kido hosts Queer Fam Pride Jam, a youth and queer family-friendly event with dance lessons, DJ sets, and more from 10 a.m. Mayor Brandon Johnson and Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) yesterday announced a lineup of free House Music programming kicking off in late May and paying homage to House Music. In 1984, Vince and his friend Jesse Saunders made a song called "On & On" that many consider the first real house record. The early morning line that resulted spanned the city’s Dearborn Bridge across the river and down adjoining Wacker Drive that Rogers frolicked by herself, greeting the many fans who camped out at the box office.

The City Council approved a landmark designation for The Warehouse Wednesday, the final step in a process that began earlier this year when Preservation Chicago listed it as one of Chicago’s seven most endangered buildings. With WBMX Hot Mix 5 member FarleyKeith already bothering the charts by 1986, it was left to the team's Mickey'Mixin' Oliver, Kenny 'Jammin' Jason and Ralphi Rosario to run the label namedafter the quintet. They hit pay dirt with the label's second release when thelatter two combined on this embittered diva's rant, Ralphi Rosario and vocalistXaviera Gold writing the track and Kenny Jason working on the brash mix thatcourted most favour.

House of Blues

When it opened in 2013, Constellation transformed the 7,000-square-foot site that was once the Viaduct Theater into two performance spaces (seating up to 75 and up to 150), as well as a full bar. With a prime location just two blocks from The Magnificent Mile and the Chicago Loop, this jazz mainstay draws a great crowd. Make a reservation for dinner or come early to secure seats, the intimate space has good views from all around the stage. Led by Chicago legend DJ Farley Jackmaster Funk and Delece Williams, #House40 Anniversary organization will produce the Inaugural House Music Parade and Festival, Saturday, August 31 at 10am in the South Loop.

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The event will feature Robert Owens, a renowned figure in the house music scene, as a keynote speaker. Since then, she’s gone on to become one of the most prolific DJs in the Chicago house music scene; in 2014, she was named a Chosen Few DJ House Music Hall of Famer, and she’s hosted DJ residencies throughout the city. Other major players were the venues themselves—where creativity crackled and beats and bass lines dropped.

The first house record considered to be a major hit overseas is "Love Can't Turn Around" by Farley "Jackmaster" Funk and Jesse Saunders featuring Darryl Pandy, which peaked at #10 in the UK Singles Chart in 1986. Although there are conflicting accounts of the term's etymology, by 1985, "house music" was synonymous with these homegrown dance music productions. Some of the teenagers who were sneaking into the Warehouse and listening to house music on local radio shows were bringing house music to the places they could party without needing to sneak in. “The Chicago Bears’ proposed domed stadium on the Lakefront could be a publicly owned cash cow for the privately held team,” reports Crain’s. “Potential terms for the new stadium would grant the team a [hoard] of new revenue from naming rights and other events.” The “huge cut of cash-flow pie at new stadium” would include mega-concerts.

Located next door to Union Park, Cobra Lounge is an official host venue for many of Chicago’s premier summer and fall outdoor music festivals, including Riot Fest & Carnival in September. What was formerly a public house for Schlitz Brewery is now a charming historic landmark in the Lakeview neighborhood. The intimate music hall inside is known for its relaxed atmosphere, great acoustics, and quality lineups of indie rock, honky-tonk, folk, and country. Tied House, which connects with Schubas, is all the more reason to come visit, dine, and listen.

The 1997 release of 'GU's 70's Trip' was just a nudgesonically from the drawn out and druggy game changers like 'I Can't Kick ThisFeelin When It Hits' being issued by Moodymann at the same time. Glenn helpedlaunch the Dust Traxx offshoot Nite Life Collective with this opening cut fromtheir debut release. To be fair, everything else on the compilation paled incomparison following this explosion of intricate musicianship and masterfularrangement. Some of these DJs also made and played their own edits of their favorite songs on reel-to-reel tape, focusing on the portions of songs which worked well on the dancefloor. Some even mixed in effects, drum machines, and other rhythmic electronic instrumentation in an effort to give songs more appeal.

There oftenseemed to be an extra, underlying rhythm to many of his tracks, a funk edgewhich he combined with industrial, techno, disco and Latin influences in a waythat perhaps only a Chicago perspective could provide. His cut-up of the vocalon this Blaze classic was so clever as to almost grant the song a new meaningand placed the remixer centre stage of the track. Chicago’s favorite dance party, the Chicago House Music Festival takes over the beautiful Humboldt Park Boathouse Lawn mainstage, Saturday, June 24 from 11am–9pm, celebrating the genre born in Chicago that has gone on to revolutionize dance music internationally. Showcasing all local DJs, the Chicago House lineup also features Cedeño and J.Star along with previously announced DJ Pycho-B, Emmaculate, Roy Davis Jr. and more on the Boathouse mainstage with a special House Music workout taking place from 11am–12noon.

“We’ve never had a lineup of house artists like this on the same stage together, and we are excited to partner with a group like NASCAR who is committed to putting Chicago front and center of everything they do,” said Vince Lawrence, House Music 40 founder and the event’s curator. Catch headline acts in rock, pop, and indie music here, and on off nights see the space double as a booze-friendly movie theater known as the Brew & View. This unassuming storefront on busy Western Avenue in West Town is one of the city’s premier indie rock clubs.

Ragtyme were the earlier formation ofone of Chicago’s most successful house music ‘groups’, Ten City. Group membersByron Burke, Byron Stingily and Herb Lawson worked with star producer MarshallJefferson from their earliest singles, such as this, right through theirbreakthrough via two major label albums for Atlantic. And anytrack that contains the line “For a chance to see you smile, I would wrestlecrocodiles” but still be great, must have a little something about it. Produced by Rick Siepak on therelatively short-lived Chicago label Sound Pak and featuring the vocals oflabel regular Charles Steward, ‘Night Moves’ is something of a little-knownanomaly. The mid-90s releases on Dutch labelDjax-Up-Beats which brought DJ Skull to wider, international recognition placedhim within the techno community. But, they also obscured the fact that DJ Skullaka Ron Maney had been hovering around the Chicago house scene since histeenage years in the ‘80s.