Today’s young millennials weaned on a lifetime of electronic music can hardly imagine how futuristic and positively alien acid house first sounded to listeners in the ’80s. “Spanky said immediately, ...

Chicago DJ and electronic music pioneer Nathaniel Pierre Jones, better known as DJ Pierre, helped develop the sub genre of music known as acid house while a member of the group Phuture. Their ’87 EP ...

Baltimore club music is, in many ways, an old man’s game. Veterans of the genre’s ’80s and ’90s heyday still run the scene, and often when a new name shows up on our radar as an up-and-comer to watch, ...

“I wanna keep club music alive,” intones Artaz Pierre Wilkins, better known as Baltimore club producer DJ Pierre, between bites of pizza at the Inner Harbor’s Gallery. Still weary from a night of ...

That squelchy, almost wet, tone. That rising, insistent, jagged pitch. There are few more instantly recognizable sounds in dance music than acid. Few more pervasive, either—house, techno, trance, ...