IN THE EARLY DAYS of house music, nobody hustled harder than Vince Lawrence. Vince grew up on the South Side of Chicago. As a teenager in the late 1970s and early 1980s, he was urbane and in the know: ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- For years, a storefront on Lincoln Avenue in the Lincoln Park neighborhood was a mecca for fans of punk, industrial, and new wave — helping launch careers and shape the direction of ...

Before there were jet-setting superstar DJs, multi-day dance festivals, Ableton Live, laptops and CDs, there was Trax Records. Before there was trance, techno, drum n’ bass, dubstep and every other ...

It’s a rain-spattered Saturday afternoon, and while Denver’s Wax Trax Records isn’t exactly quiet — a clerk pricing discs at the front counter is whistling along to the mariachi refrains of Calexico ...

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“We didn’t have record companies in Chicago. It was totally uncharted territory,” Marshall Jefferson told Rolling Stone, insisting the label never paid for his work and released his music without his ...

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For decades, Wax Trax Records has been the anchor of Capitol Hill’s business strip with its shop at 638 East 13th Avenue. Then in April, the store spread to a second location at 200 South Broadway, on ...

On Friday (October 14), more than a dozen artists sued the legendary Chicago house label Trax Records, the estate of its co-founder Larry Sherman, and its current owners Screamin’ Rachael Cain and ...

Producers Mr. Fingers (aka Larry Heard) and Robert Owens have filed a federal copyright infringement lawsuit against Chicago house label Trax Records over unpaid royalties, Billboard reports and ...

In a 1990 interview, Wax Trax! Records co-founder Jim Nash said he just wanted to get the music he liked into the spaces he frequented — they just happened to predominantly be gay clubs. During a ...