Frankie Knuckles, one of the major founding forces of house music, passed away yesterday at the age of 59. In the late Seventies, the New York DJ moved to Chicago at the behest of Robert Williams, who ...

Frankie Knuckles, who laid the groundwork for contemporary electronic dance music with his work as a DJ, producer and remixer in the 1980s and '90s, died on Monday. The cause of death was not ...

Have you ever walked into the Travis? It’s one giant flash-bang, a sensory blitz of polished stone, metal pillars, and wall-to-wall mirrored glass, which when paired with the club’s retina-shattering ...

House music just lost a father in Frankie Knuckles, who died Monday night at the age of 59 (the cause is yet unknown). It's hard to understate his importance to the genre: he was resident DJ of ...

"In 1977 Frankie moved to Chicago to reign over the turntables at the Warehouse for the next five years. If those walls could talk, the stories they would tell, they would tell of all the journeys ...

Nobody can agree on who invented the blues or birthed rock & roll, but there is no question that house music came from Frankie Knuckles, who died Monday afternoon of as-yet-undisclosed causes at age ...

Frankie Knuckles, known as the godfather of house music, passed away earlier this week. The Chicago Tribune's Greg Kot talks about Knuckles' impact on electronic dance music. Now we'd like to take a ...

He became known for extending the groove with edits to a great variety of popular dance and electronic tracks and delivering a host of seminal club hits including "Your Love", "Baby Wants To Ride", ...

In Chicago, Frankie Knuckles was called the “godfather,” not because of any underworld connections, but because he helped build house – a style of Chicago dance music that revolutionized club culture ...

NEW YORK — Frankie Knuckles, a club disc jockey, remixer, and producer who was often called the “godfather of house’’ for helping that percussive genre of dance music spread from Chicago nightclubs to ...