While it might seem like indie record stores like Wax Trax! surely must have been everywhere back in those days befor ...

For years, the storefront on Lincoln Avenue in the Lincoln Park neighborhood was a mecca for fans of punk, industrial, and new wave — helping launch careers and shape the direction of underground ...

In his latest feature, which premiered at Sundance, the 'Inspection' director asks who gets credited for their contributions ...

Aside from the litany of pioneering industrial albums with Ministry, Al Jourgensen and Paul Barker were attached to numerous ...

This year’s Sundance Film Festival screened more than two dozen LGBTQ features, shorts, and documentaries, including highly ...

"Move Ya Body: The Birth of House" traces the Chicago origins of the independent label Trax Records, and of a music genre that grew out of disco while presaging a swath of EDM and pop artists who ...

AN ICONIC dance music pioneer has been announced to be headlining a UK festival this summer. Moodymann, whose real name is Kenny Dixon Jr, will be playing his first London open air set in three ...

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 ...

The company is getting into the admittedly niche category that lets you listen to vinyl records on the go ... record players take their design ques from Vestax’s original Handy Trax from the early ...

The exterior of the former Wax Trax! Records building at 2449 N. Lincoln Ave. Credit: Patrick Filbin/Block Club Chicago LINCOLN PARK — The former Wax Trax! Records building in Lincoln Park is one step ...