Musical Locations

Roche Musique has profoundly impacted the electronic music landscape, and is a key label in the genre New French House.

Fela Aníkúlápó Kútì was a Nigerian musician, bandleader, composer, political activist, and Pan-Africanist who popularized Afrobeat. Learn the significance of his home, Kalakuta Republic, in Nigeria.

Explore King Britt’s Blacktronika Festival at Public Records in Brooklyn NY.

The Pan African Film & Arts Festival (PAFF), the largest Black Film Festival in America, is happening in Los Angeles.

The Ponce Art Museum offers music events like HAPPY ART to expose younger patrons to the visual arts.

Learn about Drill music, and where it originated in the streets of Chicago.

Learn about how Pharoahe Monch and The band Th1rt3en shot a music video in the Andrew Freedman Home, a catalyst for the arts in the Bronx.

Learn about the birth of the Movement Festival the Detroit Electronic Music Festival (DEMF)

Learn about “The Rumble in the Jungle” pre-concert where Celia Cruz sang with the Fania All-Stars in Zaire, Africa.

Check out The Future Is Now for the hottest live music and graffiti and art stream featuring Detroit Techno, House, Acid House, Breakbeat, Nu Jazz, and the hottest EDM by top New York DJs.

Learn about the pioneering punk-rock band Death a Detroit-based band that was formed in 1971, years before the first acts associated with the genre emerged or the genre reached popularity in the US.

One of the earliest clubs to play reggaeton in Puerto Rico, was the legendary club called The Noise.

The Record Plant, Sausalito was the location of some of the most successful & popular recordings in music history.

Johnson’s music has influenced Rock and Roll, Blues, R & B, and artists’ around the world.

Learn about E-mu Systems, the creators of the E-mu SP-1200 and pioneers in samplers, and the sample-based drum machines that revolutionized Hip-Hop, House and EDM.

Learn about Lo-Fi music in LA, its main characteristics, representatives and also places where you can experience Lo-Fi beats in LA.

Trent Rezners love affair with the Moog Synthesizer, started in the studio where he worked in Ohio. His timeless synth work stands the test of time through film scores like Watchmen and samples like “Old Town Road”.

Malik ‘Phife Dawg’ Taylor, a member of rap group A Tribe Called Quest, grew up on this street that was dedicated in his memory in Queens.

Visit Graceland Mansion the home of Elvis and Presley and read about his first recording session.

The final resting place of Avicii, once one of the biggest DJ, producer, and songwriters within the genre of electronic dance music.

Tin Pan Alley* is the name given to the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century.

Jookin is a part of the musical culture of Memphis. It started on the streets and on the wooden floors of the Crystal Palace Roller Rink in Memphis, Tennessee.

Learn more about the Bristol Sessions and how Bristol, Tennessee became known as the “Birthplace of Country Music”.

Jimmie Rodgers, was known as the Singing Brakeman and also as America’s Blue Yodeler, was the first performer inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

J Dilla was born in Detroit and lived his first few years in this building where his uncle Hermans’s donut shop, Dilla’s Delights, is now located.

In Summer 2012, a street was dedicated to J Dilla. It is called  “Allée Jay Dee”. and it is located in the city of Montpellier, France.

The Warehouse (or the “House”) was a nightclub established in Chicago, Illinois it is most famous for being what many consider to be the birthplace “house music” under its first musical director, DJ Frankie Knuckles.

Visit Aretha Franklin’s home during the Motown Era.

Levi Stubbs was the lead vocalist of the legendary musical Motown group The Four Tops. The Detroit-based quartet also included Renaldo “Obie” Benson, Lawrence Payton and Abdul “Duke” Fakir.

When it opened in 1910 the Howard Theatre it was known as “the largest colored theatre in the world.” After falling to disarray it was restored and reopened in 2012.

Joni Mitchell lived in Detroit in this building on the fifth floor between 1965 and early 1967.

The Blue Bird Inn was “The hippest modern jazz nightspot” in Detroit during the city’s bebop era.

Creem Magazine, America’s only rock ‘n’ roll magazine, was founded in 1969 by Wayne State student Barry Kramer and Brit Tony Reray in a defeated building in Detroit’s Cass Corridor.

July 12, 1979 when radio personality Steve Dahl staged a Disco Demolition Night at the Old Comiskey Park in Chicago

John Lee Hooker played his first gig at Apex bar back in 1943.

Open since 1926 Bohemian Caverns is a jazz venue that is A key historic landmark in the “U Street Corridor” in DC. It is considered one of the nations oldest, jazz clubs in the world.

Metroplex, the brainchild of the Godfather of Techno, Juan Atkins was founded in 1985 and Transmat, founded by Derrick May in 1986, on an intersection they called Techno Boulevard.

Founded in 1987 by Kevin Saunderson, KMS Records is one of the most important Techno labels created in Detroit before 1990.

The Music Institute was Detroit’s answer to such legendary house and garage clubs as New York’s Paradise Garage and Chicago’s Powerplant.

Explore the building featuring labels, record stores and a museum where historic techno relics are showcased and the HQ of the collective Underground Resistance.

The Cheetah Club is widely credited as the birthplace of Salsa music and it was the epicenter for this art form’s rise to popularity and the use of the term “Salsa”.

Salsa music is a genre of music, generally defined as a modern style of playing Cuban Son, Son Montuno, and Guaracha with touches from other genres of music. We highlight Robrto Clemente Col is a historic concert venue in the city of Ponce Puerto Rico.

Grime was created in London by kids who became MCs and DJs but pirate radio stations like Rinse FM were the early incubators that spread the Grime sound across the UK.

Highlife is a music genre that originated in Ghana at the turn of the 20th century and incorporated the traditional harmonic 9th, as well as melodic and the main rhythmic structures in traditional Akan music, and married them with Western instruments and ideas.

The Cape Town Electronic Music Festival was held on The Victoria & Alfred Waterfront