The Chicago producer pioneered a blend of house, hip-hop, and Miami bass via string of releases on the city’s Dance Mania ...

DJ Funk, the Chicago producer who created and named the subgenre of ghetto house, is dead. He was 54, per The Guardian, ...

DJ Funk, the Chicago ghetto house innovator, has passed away at 54. His influence shaped dance music worldwide, inspiring ...

Nearly 300 of you sent us your tracks, ranging from rap, rock, techno, country, and more genres than we could even imagine. Rather than sort through it all, we figured we’d just give the artists ...

The result is what, in her book “Planning for Empire” (2011), she labelled “techno-fascism”: authoritarianism driven by technocrats. Technology “is considered the driving force” of ...

He has been at the forefront of three different generations of dance music in Chicago, pushing the sounds of ghetto house, juke and footwork in the city and to the world. Martyn Pepperell tells his ...

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CHICAGO — This weekend, Chicagoans can brave the cold in more ways than one. Perhaps you’d like to plunge into Lake Michigan to raise money for animal rescues at the 16th annual Shelter Shiver, or ...

As if Chicago didn’t have enough problems. Here comes Godzilla, as in Gojira, the Big G, Tokyo’s Own. “Da King of da Monsters has come to da Windy City!” a shocked CTA train operator gulps ...