Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The king of Acid House, DJ Pierre, will mark his 35th anniversary in the industry ...

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 ...

The B side of Phuture’s breakout single, “Acid Tracks” One of the best parts of the Chicago Cultural Center’s “Move Your Body”—a small, necessary, and imperfect exhibit documenting the golden age of ...

Acid was born in Detroit in the mid ’80s, but it wasn’t until it was embraced by the UK underground a short time later that the genre found its broadest audiences. Acid tracks topped charts and ...

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, ...

News Acid House Pioneer DJ Spank-Spank of Phuture Has Died The Chicago trio are widely seen as originators of the genre for their 1987 song “Acid Tracks” By Matthew Strauss September 21, 2016 Photo ...

Earl Smith Jr., also known as DJ Spank Spank of the pioneering acid house crew Phuture, has died. The death was announced on his Facebook page. No cause of death has been released, but as FACT notes, ...