House music then referred to the disco, gospel, funk, and soul Knuckles played at his party. It's arguable that Frankie Knuckles is the godfather of what is called Chicago house music today.

We still hear it in today’s music, even if in degraded forms. In 2022, Beyoncé released the curiously titled album Renaissance, building pop confections off the house blueprint.Back in 2016 ...

In the mid 1980s and 1990s, house music became a major fixation on the UK music charts. In the past decade, house music has become very popular in America because many artists have crossed over to ...

House music has a strong presence in the Grammy nominations this year and the original creators in this historically underground genre are not mad about it. In the record of the year category ...

Nobody can agree on who invented the blues or birthed rock & roll, but there is no question that house music came from Frankie Knuckles, who died Monday afternoon of as-yet-undisclosed causes at ...

He says house music did fall a little out of favor in the mid-aughts, but amapiano was incubated in homes during the pandemic. And now the beats are coming to life on newly reopened dance floors.

What we mean when we say Beyoncé is “saving” house music. Disco and house music are as American as hip-hop and rock ’n’ roll. But Americans have never fully embraced that idea.

House music originated as a locus of escape and release for the Black, queer, and working-class communities who shaped it. The genre has its origins in Chicago in the '80s, when a group of Black ...