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- Music, Music Review Mar 29, 2021
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Chicago producer Vince Kaichan steers footwork toward serenity on Lost in Time
- 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, Music Review Feb 2, 2021
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Casper McFadden’s breakcore fuels optimistic dreams
- Music, Music Review Jan 13, 2021
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DJ Corey grew up immersed in footwork, and he’s learned it inside and out
- Music, Music Review Dec 25, 2020
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DJ Earl demonstrates footwork’s deep roots on Bass + Funk & Soul
- Music, Music Review Sep 22, 2020
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Sirr TMo Sama gives footwork a strange peacefulness with On Dat
- Music, Music Review Sep 19, 2020
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Zora Jones’s Ten Billion Angels is an electronic fantasy inspired by tentacle porn
- Music, Gossip Wolf Aug 18, 2020
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Traxman remixes ‘WAP’; bucket and mop not included
Plus: Poster artist Frank Okay drops a solo album, and Teklife producer Heavee releases a kaleidoscopic EP.
- Music, Music Feature Jul 23, 2020
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Thirty-five moments that brought Chicago music to the world
The Year of Chicago Music has had less music in it than anybody anticipated, but we still have plenty to celebrate.
- 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, Music Review Jul 7, 2020
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Park Hye Jin’s house music transforms your room into an emotive, prismatic dance floor
- Music, Music Review May 8, 2020
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Chicago footwork master DJ Taye invokes the rapid pace of our changing times on Pyrot3k
- Music, Music Review Apr 10, 2020
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Chicago footwork producer DJ Hank takes inspiration from his bike-messenger job for Traffic Control
- 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, Concert Preview Nov 21, 2019
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Footwork innovator Jlin continues to expand her sound
- Music, Concert Preview Oct 17, 2019
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As DJ Roc, Clarence Johnson has helped make footwork a global phenomenon
- 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, Concert Preview Jul 11, 2019
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Teklife producer DJ Phil brings a nuanced touch to footwork
- Music, Music Feature May 21, 2019
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Plugging into Chicago’s forgotten house venues
For decades, house music has shaped pop worldwide—but many of the spaces that birthed it here disappeared so quickly they barely left a trace.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Apr 16, 2019
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Impulsive Hearts use their summery pop-rock to raise money for Resilience
Plus: Footwork crew the Era screens short films in Hyde Park, and Avondale bar Reed’s Local celebrates five years with three days of music.
- Music, Music Feature Feb 13, 2019
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Daredevil producer Jlin survives her own trial by fire
The Indiana-based beat wizard returns to the stage for Pitchfork Midwinter after courting burnout to finish her second album and score an avant-garde dance performance.
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 25, 2018
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South-side poet Kwynology wants you to fall back in love with Chicago at her open mike
In the Yard will let south- and west-siders share their work in their own community.
- Music, Gossip Wolf Jun 19, 2018
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One-man soul factory Phillip-Michael Scales celebrates the new Sinner-Songwriter
Plus: Litebulb of the Era helps fund-raise for the arts nonprofit he’s cofounded, Toastamania brings its DIY collision of rock and wrestling to Subterranean, and more.
