In its fifty years of existence, iconic North Side dance music shop Gramaphone Records has survived, if only just barely, the rise of downloading, the rise and fall of CDs and cassettes, and too many ...

Music plays an outsized role in the cultural lifeblood of Chicago. It’s a city that has served as a bassinet for the electrified delta blues, modern gospel music, creative jazz music, alt-country and ...

There’s something very special about Chicago. It doesn’t feel like any of the other major US cities that's for sure. It’s not as intense and busy as New York and it’s not as a sparse as Los Angeles.

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Chicago-based DJ, Ariel Zetina, has dropped a '100% Chicago House' mix as part of Red Bull Music Festival's celebration of Gramaphone Records' 50th anniversary. Despite being a Chicago transplant, ...

Jesse De La Pena of Chicago's Vocalo Radio dives into the cultural significance of Gramaphone Records for the store's 50th anniversary Music plays an outsized role in the cultural lifeblood of Chicago ...