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Monte Carlo, Cutlass

Record label and recording studio operated by the production team of Rick Lenoir and Larry Thompson. The duo is most known for house classics…

Herb Kent- ("The True Godfather of House" -per Braxton Holmes) Home of the "Punk Out" show. Hugo Hutchinson did the actual mixes. Herb Kent curted…

StreetBeat Show T. Chablis, Vinnie Divine, James Christopher

(College Radio 89.3) Kennedy- King College; Listed as Original members of Friday Night Audio- Brian Frazier, *Greg Winfield, *Gerald Anthony aka DJ…

Lee Collins radio show Disco Madness

Quick 6

Chris "Bam Bam" Westbrook

Partners Jim Nash and Dannie Flesher opened Wax Trax! on Lincoln Avenue in 1978, just in time to witness the ritualized death rites of disco at…

Owners Georgy Porgie Andros, Connie V.

Evergreen Plaza

In 1955, Lillian and Jimmy Davis, who owned a store called the Savoy Record Mart, started the Club 51 Record Company in the back of their retail…

The One-derful label complex (One-derful, M-Pac, Mar-V-lus, Midas, Halo, Toddlin' Town) represented mostly the harder gospelly style of Chicago soul…

Post-Medusa's for a short time hosted dance parties that catered to the same youth crowd, prior to becoming "Brew & View"

A short lived club in 1986 on the hilled corner of 115th and Michigan. DJ's including Pharris Thomas and Mike Williams played there. During some…

Next to Sauers

associated with DJ Andre Hatchett

Vince Lawrence prehouse new wave

The company was established in August 1946 by Chicago-born businessman Lee L. Egalnick (1921-2000).[1][2] It released records by musicians including…

Mercury Record Corporation was formed in the American city of Chicago in 1945 by Irving Green, Berle Adams, Ray Greenberg [1] and Arthur Talmadge.[2]…