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Ten City

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Post House: Paradise Regained

Report by David Toop, The Face, December 1988

When New York's Paradise Garage closed, the city lost part of its pulse, leaving only a brand of Eighties disco called Garage. In Chicago, it ...

Ten City: New Soul Children

Interview by Paolo Hewitt, New Musical Express, 4 February 1989

Spurning the sampler and the radio-friendly fast buck, Chicago's TEN CITY are committed to rekindling the spirit of classic soul. With 'That's The Way Love ...

Ten City, Kym Mazelle: Town & Country, London

Live Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 27 March 1989

Beyond the beat ...

Ten City: Mean Housin' Muthas From Chicago!!

Interview by Tom Doyle, Smash Hits, April 1989

As opposed to "mean rockin' muthas from hell" (haw haw). Tom Doyle gasps at their tale of dubious street gangs and teetering high heels and ...

Ten City, Kym Mazelle: Town and Country Club, London

Live Review by Dele Fadele, New Musical Express, 8 April 1989

KISS IT BETTER ...

House Music: The Blues for Dance

Report by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 1989

The new sound pumps up the volume and eyes a move from R&B underground to the pop mainstream. ...

Ten City: Foundation (Atlantic)

Review by Frank Owen, Spin, June 1989

I, A HONKY away-from-homeboy, first heard the deep house anthem 'Devotion' by Chicago's Ten City (here included along with their other two club hits, 'That's ...

Ten City: City Slickers

Interview by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 30 April 1991

LAST ISSUE De La Soul made the comment: "the less talented you are as a singer, the better you seem to do in the commercial ...

Ten City: Basic Instincts

Interview by Jeff Lorez, Blues & Soul, 25 August 1992

Ten City's new album, No House Big Enough sees them in stripped down, raw and uncompromising form, intent on causing dancefloor mayhem. ...

Ten City: That Was Then, This Is Now (Columbia CT57183; CD and cassette)

Review by Amy Linden, The New York Times, 15 May 1994

BYRON STINGILY, singer for the trio Ten City, is a disciple of Sylvester, one of disco's biggest male stars. Like Sylvester, who died in 1988, ...

Ten City

Book Excerpt by Phil Hardy, Dave Laing, The Faber Companion to 20th-Century Popular Music, 2001

Byron Stingily; Herb Lawson; Byron Burke ...

see also Marshall Jefferson

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