Before it burned, Charlie Springer’s house contained 18,000 vinyl LPs, 12,000 CDs, 10,000 45s, 4,000 cassettes, 600 78s, 150 8-tracks, hundreds of signed musical posters, and about 100 gold records.

Gene "Groove" Allen, the Long Island-born rapper and star of House Party, has passed away unexpectedly. Family members confirmed the news to TMZ, which reported his age as 62. However, his IMDb ...

Gene “Groove” Allen, a New York City rapper of the 1980s-’90s trio Groove B. Chill who went on to appear in the 1990 movie ...

The Birth of House” tells the story of how house music was born in the late 1970s. A history reconstructed by director Elegance Bratton (“The Inspection”) through the memories of the trailblazers who ...

While interesting, Elegance Bratton’s documentary falls short of being the definitive voice on Chicago’s role in house music New York City has hip-hop, and Chicago has house music. Although each genre ...

Braithwaite, who is 48, says he and his bandmates are “comfortably living off music”. Like Pritchard, he benefited from comparably low living costs and bought a house around the time of Mogwai ...

His hit from 1986 had been both mechanised and modern ... Richard Thompson recorded it for his 1000 Years of Popular Music project: there’s no doubting his sincerity, and the arrangement ...

Part of Three Hand-Painted Films, Night Music (originally painted on IMAX) attempts to capture the beauty of sadness, as the eyes have it when closed in meditation on sorrow.

Finally, that November, the bill passed the House and Senate, and Reagan signed it into law, with the first official observance of Martin Luther King Jr. day set for January 1986. The “All-Star ...