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Tag: House Music
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An Oral History of House Music
After Beyoncé’s Grammys speech thanking the queer community for creating house music, NPR’s Throughline gathered quotes and anecdotes from various conversations to create a kind of oral history of the genre which …
Listen Up
Shape-shifting songs, daydreamy alt-folk, infectious house and more music from the week
Jayda G: Circle Back Around
Canadian producer and DJ Jayda G shares the emotional, uplifting first single, “Circle Back Around,” from her upcoming album, Guy—a record that explores and celebrates her relationship with her father, William Richard Guy, …
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A crying-at-the-club banger, a sparse yet enveloping arrangement and more music from the week
Romy + Fred again..: Strong
Brimming with ’90s house influences, the pulsating new track “Strong” by Romy (musician, vocalist and frontwoman of The xx) and producer Fred again.. (aka Fred John Philip Gibson) possesses that familiar and …
serpentwithfeet: I’m Pressed
Just a few days ago, serpentwithfeet (aka Josiah Wise) released a song made with Moby; today, he shares “I’m Pressed,” a house-inflected track carried by the experimental artist’s undulating vocals. The energetic …
Röyksopp On Their Most Ambitious Project Yet, “Profound Mysteries II”
The prolific electronic music duo on their upcoming album and the importance of imagination
Acid House As It Happened
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When London’s rave scene began in the late ’80s, it ignited a culture around uninhibited style, the Roland TB-303 synthesizer and blissful hedonism. More than wild revelry, the scene—dubbed acid house—became a …
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A disco-pop bop, retro soul sounds, Afrobeat and more of our favorite music from the week