If there’s one thing that grinds our gears just a little bit more than everything else at Ears To The House, it’s historical accuracy. Let’s face it – those people who were around in...
READ MORE...
2 Minutes
3 Minutes
Nine years after the death of Frankie Knuckles, an old video resurfaces – but isn’t the Godfather of House just being a tad hypocritical?
Here at Ears To The House, we pride ourselves on a few different things. Such as not being afraid to ask the questions others shy away from – and whether it’s over issues such...
READ MORE...
2 Minutes
Revealed: Frankie Knuckles silent partner whilst he was at Chicago’s legendary Power Plant…
Anyone driving past 1015 North Halstead Street in Chicago nowadays might not take much notice at the surroundings – the cured resident at this address is a self-storage facility called StorageMart. But it wasn’t...
READ MORE...
2 Minutes
Frankie Knuckles thought Trax were “barnacles” – so this is awkward…
It’s not unusual for people’s memories to change as they get older. This is often to do with changes to the brain as people age, and is not necessarily a sign of something like...
READ MORE...
2 Minutes
After François K leads Frankie Knuckles tribute event, where was David Morales’ invite?
As much as people rightly criticise the algorithms which dictate so much of our online lives these days, it has to be said they do occasionally turn up with the goods. This was our...
READ MORE...
2 Minutes
Will “I Want The Love Of My Own” by Frankie Knuckles EVER see the light of day?
Quite some time ago now – 26th August last year, to be precise – Ears To The House published an article about how a big mythical vault full of unreleased Frankie Knuckles records basically...
READ MORE...
2 Minutes
Way to make a guy feel old just as the weekend’s getting started! Frankie Knuckles would have been 67 years old this week – and which BBC radio station mentioned this? Radio 2…
If you go back far enough into the history of house music, you’ll eventually come across a time when the BBC were quite hesitant to get involved with the scene. In the UK, house...
READ MORE...
A record of real historical significance? Frankie Knuckles’ unreleased song “I Want The Love Of My Own” tackled sexuality at a time of AIDS and social change – but there’s still no sign of its release…
Back on Friday, this blog published an article about a birthday party for Frankie Knuckles taking place in the city of Chicago today. As a footnote to the article, I commented on the release...
READ MORE...
This Sunday – just two days before he would have had his 67th birthday – Frankie Knuckles will be celebrated in his native Chicago… let’s see this more often!
House music is a curious old beast when it comes to its roots, isn’t it? We all know – well, except if you’re David Guetta – that house music mostly originates from the cities...
READ MORE...
Is there a huge vault of unreleased Frankie Knuckles tracks? Er, nope – but one called “I Want The Love Of My Own” has been recently unearthed and it’s coming out soon…
Whenever a singer dies these days. one of the questions which soon raises its ugly head is what’s going to happen to all the music they made which was never released. And what happens...
READ MORE...
If a Brass Eye episode about dance music existed, this would be it! About the time that David Guetta tried to sue Wunderground – only for Frankie Knuckles to also fail to see the joke
My post last Friday about a very shrewd business deal on the part of David Guetta, the piñata of EDM, making a nice $100million from a deal signing his old masters over to Warner...
READ MORE...
Unreleased Frankie Knuckles? You want to click this, don’t you?
Six remixes that Frankie Knuckles did for Electribe 101 back in 1990 are finally due to be released later in the year. Exactly why they were never released at the time – especially given...
READ MORE...