Lori Branch and Vitigrrl on House Music Chicago Testimony

MAY 15 2026

DJ and historian Lori Branch, who was in the Chicago rooms from the start, talks about the oral-history project in which she sits down with the people who actually built the genre. Branch is one of the few women given the microphone in house's origin story, and the project's premise is that the founders should tell it themselves before they are gone. A public-radio conversation about how the record gets kept.