Dance parties are big business in Southern California these days. There was a time, however, when you didn’t know where the party was until right before it started. You had to call a number to get a ...

Iz & Diz, “Mouth (Brad Peep’s Remix for Friends)” (Classic, 2002) Matthew Herbert wasn’t the only one making kicking house tracks out of quotidian sounds back around the turn of the millennium. In ...

This month, we've been helping you refresh your playlists by introducing you to music you don't know or maybe you think you don't like. This week, NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navaro — previously an electronic ...

Otis Clay’s early career spanned two golden eras of modern black music—gospel in the late 50s and early 60s and deep soul in the 60s and 70s—but he didn’t stop building on his legacy when those ...