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Carl Cox Rarely Gets Three Hours Anymore. New Orleans Is About to Get the Whole Sunset.
We Belong Here's first New Orleans festival, running November 13 to 15 at Goldring Woldenberg Riverfront Park, hands its house and techno anchor slot to a three-hour Carl Cox sunset set.
Josh D. · 4 min read
Amnesia Sold Out Blind. Café Mambo Closed the Season With a 1986 House Legend.
Ibiza's 2026 season ended on three different currencies: Amnesia's blind brand loyalty, Circoloco's 27 years of underground pedigree at DC10, and Café Mambo closing its sunset sessions with Chicago house pioneer Marshall Jefferson instead of a chart headliner.
Elena R. · 4 min read
The Martinez Brothers Say House Started in NYC. Chicago House Legends Say Absolutely Not.
The Martinez Brothers have reignited one of dance music’s oldest arguments: if New York had the clubs, the DJs and records that sounded like house before Chicago’s first house releases, who really created the genre? Chicago’s answer has been loud, passionate, and historically pretty convincing.
Nicky V. · 12 min read
He Never Got the "Godfather of House" Title. Ron Hardy Built the Sound Anyway.
Ron Hardy, resident DJ at Chicago's Music Box from 1982 to 1987, spliced reel-to-reel edits and pitched turntables up as far as +8 to forge a rawer, faster house sound alongside Frankie Knuckles, then died of an AIDS-related illness in 1992 without seeing it go global.
Sarah H. · 6 min read
A Berlin Rave Hero Signed to Capitol and Sampled the House Anthem. Sellout or Gospel?
Marlon Hoffstadt, the Berlin rave figure who performs as DJ Daddy Trance, has signed to Capitol Records for his debut album 'Das Ist Daddy', out 7 August, and built its lead single 'Party People' on Marshall Jefferson's 1986 Chicago house cornerstone 'Move Your Body'.
Sarah H. · 5 min read
Who Created House Music? The Chicago DJs Who Built a Sound From Disco's Ashes
House was not invented by one person. It was built in early-1980s Chicago by a small circle of mostly Black and gay DJs, from Frankie Knuckles and Ron Hardy behind the decks to Jesse Saunders, Larry Heard and Marshall Jefferson on the records.
Sarah H. · 5 min read
House music takes the wheel in Forza Horizon 6: Marshall Jefferson shares the dial with FISHER and Anna Lunoe
Forza Horizon 6, the year's biggest racing game, hands house a global stage: Chicago originator Marshall Jefferson sits beside FISHER and Anna Lunoe on the Horizon Bass Arena station, putting the genre in front of tens of millions of players.
Sarah H. · 5 min read
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