IN THE EARLY DAYS of house music, nobody hustled harder than Vince Lawrence. Vince grew up on the South Side of Chicago. As a teenager in the late 1970s and early 1980s, he was urbane and in the know: ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- For years, a 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 ...

For decades, Wax Trax Records has been the anchor of Capitol Hill’s business strip with its shop at 638 East 13th Avenue. Then in April, the store spread to a second location at 200 South Broadway, on ...

Belgian industrial/EBM icons Front 242 are retiring from the road following their “Blackout” final tour, that concludes with two special shows in Brussels in January. The tour hits North America this ...

Producers Mr. Fingers (aka Larry Heard) and Robert Owens have filed a federal copyright infringement lawsuit against Chicago house label Trax Records over unpaid royalties, Billboard reports and ...

Saturday, April 23, is Record Store Day, a celebration of independent retailers specializing in LPs, CDs and other products that music lovers can actually hold in their hands rather than stream on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DJ Frankie Knuckles at Pacha, Ministry of Sound, Ibiza 1998 - Credit: PYMCA/Universal Images Group/Getty Images However, in the ...

“We didn’t have record companies in Chicago. It was totally uncharted territory,” Marshall Jefferson told Rolling Stone, insisting the label never paid for his work and released his music without his ...

Larry Sherman, recording engineer and founder of the seminal Chicago house label Trax Records, has died. The label announced the news in a statement on its social media accounts earlier today (April 9 ...

For nearly 15 years, the two-story building at 2449 N. Lincoln Ave. served as the epicenter of an underground musical, social and cultural movement that spread across the globe. Now, nearly three ...

The Chicago City Council this week officially designated the former Wax Trax! Records building in Lincoln Park an official Chicago landmark. The City Council approved the designation at its meeting on ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Denver musicians and aspiring musicians alike had the opportunity to learn guitar and the banjo during a lesson from an Ohio folk band at Wax Trax Records. Caamp is a bluegrass band ...