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Buzz – once called "Washington's best electronic dance night" by The Washington Post – was one of Washington, D.C.'s longest running dance parties. It was co-founded by DJ/promoter Scott Henry and DJ/promoter and DC music store (Music Now) owner Lieven DeGeyndt at the East Side Club and then relaunched in October 1995 at the now demolished Nation, formerly the Capital Ballroom.
Freaknik (/ ˈ f r iː k n ɪ k /; originally Freaknic) was an annual spring break festival in Atlanta, Georgia.It was initially attended by students enrolled at historically black colleges and universities in the Atlanta University Center. [1]
The club was located near the other seminal Navy Yard club called Tracks (1111 First St, S.E.), a large gay club at the time. The Capitol Ballroom began holding "Buzz" nights on Fridays, which hosted a number of national and international talent in dance music. It eventually became one of the country's largest weekly dance party/rave hybrid.
First African-American Radio City Music Hall Rockette: Jennifer Jones; First African-American man to sail around the world solo: Teddy Seymour; First African-American CEO of a Fortune 500 company: Clifton R. Wharton Jr. [280] First African-American woman, and first woman, to have an album debut at number one on the Billboard 200: Whitney Houston
The post There’s a Riot Goin’ on: A Look Back on the 1990s Rave Riots in Los Angeles appeared first on SPIN. It was New Year’s Eve 1996. They had booked the Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los ...
When most people imagine the typical DJ or rave-goer, they don't likely picture a 47-year-old grandfather. But Lee Reynolds, a DJ and co-founder of Desert Hearts music festival, has been a fixture ...
Before the start of the Harlem Renaissance, Washington, D.C. developed an educated and prosperous Black middle class, made up of Black intellectuals and scholars who often studied at Howard University. Washington, D.C. had the country's largest Black community from 1900 to 1920, heavily influencing the development of the Black Renaissance in ...
This made it a popular service for both amateur and professional disc jockeys operating from a personal computer. [20] In 1997 the DJ collective "Sister SF" was established. Born in San Francisco "Sister SF" served as the first and longest running women-centered DJ collective in the United States. The collective was created in order to create a ...