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 ...

Acid house pioneer DJ Pierre is celebrating 35 years of DJing and making music with a massive remix package of his iconic 'Acid Track'. Pierre started out in the early 1980s with his friend Spanky in ...

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, ...

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, ...

“The station was lucky to have him on the air. We were all lucky to have him as a guide to his musical galaxy and I was lucky to have him as a friend.” That’s how Jon Bon Jovi today described ...

“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 ...

When news broke on Wednesday that Pierre Robert, the Philadelphia rock DJ, had died at 70, it became apparent it wasn’t just a local story. The city, of course, was mourning, but rock luminaries also ...