Funkadelic’s “(Not Just) Knee Deep” is the best dance song ever recorded, maybe even the best song ever recorded. Upon deployment on any floor, dancers and wallflowers alike compulsively blurt out ...

I'm a sucker for grass-roots electronic music scenes. Being in a part of the Midwest that is more defined by towns than cities, it's fascinating to me how the sounds and niches change from one place ...

First, let’s get acquainted with footwork, a regional form of house music born in Chicago that splintered off of the ghetto house genre in the 1990s. One of the first things you’ll notice is that it’s ...

While we all know that the sounds of juke and footwork kicked off in Chicago, we'd be playing ourselves if we said that the only juke and footwork movements were relegated to the Windy City. The ...

DJ Noir, co-founder of the international footwork collective Juke Bounce Werk, sat down to chat to Clent and Corey about footwork history, their inspirations, and thoughts on how the music they ...

DJ Rashad hovers over his laptop at a Lit City Rave hosted by New York venue 285 Kent in fall 2012. Credit: Wills Glasspiegel Spinn had been looking forward to the festival for months, but, as he says ...

The stage at the Portage Theater doesn’t usually serve any purpose aside from putting a gap of maybe 20 feet between the first row of seats and the screen. But on the afternoon of Sunday, March 21, it ...

This morning longtime Teklife member and footwork pioneer DJ Tre dropped “It’s House Hybrid” the first song from his upcoming EP on Hyperdub, The Underdogg. You can listen to it above. A breakneck, ...

After a July 19th live taping of Red Bull Radio’s daily show Peak Time Live at the stylish eatery The Promontory, on the south side of Chicago—centered around the Windy City’s footwork crew Teklife—a ...