House of Avant Garde Screening in Brooklyn
The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) will screen Having a Ball on Thursday, October 23, 2025. Having a Ball! profiles the supportive, hugely creative LGBTQ+ family that formed around Chicago’s House […]
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Harriet Tubman: Live in Concert
New book by Bob the Drag Queen! An inventive, wondrous novel about American hero Harriet Tubman that remixes history into a fresh, dynamic novel about love, freedom, salvation, and hip-hop. […]
The RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines has Launched
The RILM Archive of Popular Music Magazines (RAPMM) is a continuously expanding digital collection that currently includes over 125 independently published popular music magazines and fanzines from the late 1960s to […]
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Reviews About THING the Book
These magazines are over the top about the release of THING magazine as a book. See for yourself!
Rise Above: The Tribe 8 Documentary
A feature film about the all-women, queercore punk band Tribe 8, directed and produced by Tracy Flannigan. The film chronicles live performances, candid moments of their lives at work and […]
WTTW Interviews Frankie Knuckles
Explore the origins of house music, which began in Chicago’s underground party scene.
Aaron Pierre Brown and The House of Avant-Garde
The House of Avant-Garde was established in 1986 by Wardell Ford, Thomas Sampson, and DeRico “Tracy” Reed. Aaron Pierre Brown moved to Chicago from Michigan in the Fall of 1986. […]
Home of House at Navy Pier
Chicago is the birthplace of House music. House music evolved through the early 1980s and brought together Chicagoans of different races, ages, cultures, and orientations like no other medium of […]
House Music, A Cultural Revolution
The new House Music documentary, House Music: A Cultural Revolution, airs November 8, 2024 on WTTW’s Chicago Stories series. This powerful film is produced by two Chicagoans who were immersed […]
Interview with the Legendary Lori Branch
The Gay Origins of House Music on the ‘But We Loved’ podcast. Sneaking out in the early Warehouse years; Robert Ford and Thing mag; being disowned for being gay; the […]