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 ...

Footwork is functional music at its core. It’s all in the name. Its purpose is to propel acrobatically nimble dancers into motion and send their feet flying. Drawing from the deep bowels of house and ...

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 ...

The rawness of Lil M.U.’s music is refreshing in part because juke's simplicity has been overshadowed by more complex ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since 2013’s critically acclaimed Double Cup album, the leaders of Chicago’s unique juke and footwork sounds, DJ Rashad and DJ Spinn, have been steadily winning an international fan base. Their ...

A pioneer of footwork, juke-informed house music, his death comes weeks after that of another Chicago legend, Frankie Knuckles. By Harley Brown, Billboard Chicago footwork mastermind DJ Rashad has ...

The Chicago-based dance music producer was one of the leading lights of the footwork scene, which features frantic beats and hyper-energetic dancing. Rashad Hanif Harden, the Chicago DJ and producer ...

Perhaps you've exhausted every episode of our FADER Mix series, and you're looking for an unending stream of energetic and unique music. DJ Clent's got you: the Chicago producer has launched Beatdown ...