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- Music, Gossip Wolf Feb 16, 2021
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Jessica Risker combines her two loves with the podcast Music Therapy
Plus: Shoegaze band Diagonal release a spacey new album, and footwork crew the Era drop a dreamy rap single.
- Music, Chicagoans of Note Jul 7, 2020
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DJ Hank, footwork producer and bike messenger
“Something with the culture just instantly made sense, coming from a punk background. I think footwork music is pretty subversive. It's raw.”
- Music, Gossip Wolf Dec 10, 2019
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Psychedelic country collective the Keener Family drop a debut four years in the making
Plus: Dustin Laurenzi’s Snaketime helps Mississippi Records celebrate the music of Moondog, and the Era Footwork Crew bring the stage show In the Wurkz to Links Hall.
- Music, Music Feature Aug 21, 2019
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Open the Circle teaches footwork because footwork saves lives
This Chicago nonprofit, linked to the Era dance crew, works to spread a local Black subculture that can knit together youth communities.
- Music, Music Feature Aug 5, 2019
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Photos from DJ Clent’s Beatdown House Litnic
Some of the biggest names in ghetto house, juke, and footwork played for free at a relaxed party and cookout in Dolton Park.
- Music, Concert Preview Jul 26, 2019
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DJ Clent’s Beatdown 22nd anniversary Litnic books the best in ghetto house, juke, and footwork
- Music, Music Feature Mar 8, 2018
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Could DJ Taye make Chicago footwork the biggest music in the world?
The Teklife producer integrates rap so perfectly on his new Still Trippin’ that he could bring footwork to new heights.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 18, 2017
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Chicago footworker DJ Manny brings his sinuous style to Wednesday’s Resonance Series
DJ Manny is one of footwork's best and brightest, and he proves it again on the title track from his latest seven-inch.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Oct 3, 2016
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Jill Flanagan of Forced Into Femininity takes her underground scene to task
Plus: Anya Davidson celebrates a collection of her comic strip Band for Life, and the Era throw a listening party for their first “footwork mixtape.”
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 9, 2016
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DJ Oreo talks about footwork, booking a Chicago party from Australia, and Sunday’s birthday battle with Elz the DJ
West-side native DJ Oreo throws himself a birthday party at East Room on Sunday that doubles as an informal turntable battle with his best friend—and then he hits the road with Lil Yachty.
- Music, Music Feature Aug 17, 2016
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The Era move footworking into the spotlight
The crews who evolved this grassroots Chicago dance style often end up as sideshows to DJs or rappers—but the Era hope to change that with their first stage production.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 17, 2016
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Pitchfork Fest on Saturday was mostly a joy to behold
On Pitchfork's second day, RP Boo and Jlin inspired fancy footwork, while Sufjan Stevens and Brian Wilson served up different doses of sadness.
- Music, Gossip Wolf May 24, 2016
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Rapper and prison abolitionist Ric Wilson needs help replacing a stolen computer
Plus: Rock duos Pussy Foot and Drool pair up on a split cassette, and art-book shop Bing hosts a footwork-themed film screening, discussion, and performance.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 15, 2016
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Help dance-music outlet Mucho Culo get back on its feet this weekend
Subterranean hosts a benefit show for Mucho Culo, which was based out of a studio destroyed in a July fire.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 9, 2015
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Boiler Room celebrates Chicago and Detroit's electronic legacy
The notorious international pop-up party brings the two midwestern cities together with a four-show series beginning tomorrow night at Evil Olive.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 19, 2015
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DJ Spinn, DJ Rashad, and Danny Brown bring Detroit closer to Chicago on 'Dubby'
Two of the footwork's greatest producers team up with raunchy Detroit rapper Danny Brown.
- Music, Record Roundup Aug 11, 2015
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![Reviews of Mick Jenkins's surprisingly friendly <i>Wave[s]</i> and nine more new records](https://media1.fdncms.com/chicago/imager/u/results/18611558/mus_rr0-081315-teaser.jpg)
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Reviews of Mick Jenkins's surprisingly friendly Wave[s] and nine more new records
Five Reader writers take in a range of sounds that includes Ola Belle Reed's rural roots music, Ahab's "nautik funeral doom," and Beach House's newly modest dream pop.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Jun 3, 2015
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Teklife and Treated Crew bring their collaboration to the stage
Plus: Hausu Mountain erupts again with three oddball tapes, and Already Dead cofounder Joshua Tabbia leaves town.
- Blogs, Bleader May 15, 2015
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Treated Crew and Teklife further DJ Rashad's legacy on Live From Your Mama's House
Treated Crew rapper Mic Terror leads the charge on this collaborative EP, a blend of hip-hop and footwork that can be traced back to his coming-of-age in Chicago's south suburbs.
- Music, Music Feature Dec 23, 2014
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Our favorite music of 2014
Six Reader writers go deep with specialized year-end lists that do more than just put the same records in a different order.
- Music, Music Feature Nov 13, 2014
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DJ Rashad is gone, but his influence on footwork lives on
The Chicago producer died before the music he helped define could break out, but he's still inspiring his Teklife crew—which is releasing a compilation to benefit his young son.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Jul 30, 2014
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Gossip Wolf: The Thalia Hall team launches the Promontory in Hyde Park
Plus: The Mopery's new identity, a release party for Novembers Doom, and more
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 28, 2014
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Follow DJ Spinn as he shops for records at Pitchfork
DJ Spinn talks about DJ Rashad and Michael Jackson in Pitchfork's record fair.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 25, 2014
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Reader's Agenda Fri 7/25: Newberry Book Fair, Critical Mass, and Juke Fest
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, July 25
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 22, 2014
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12 O'Clock Track: If you liked DJ Spinn's Pitchfork set, you might like Acen
The darkcore standard "Trip II the Moon" could have been played in Spinn's set.
