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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sometimes dance music needs a push. And for an increasing number of artists and fans from the late 2000s forward, the once-insular sound and competitive dance culture of Chicago’s “footwork” scene has ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Watch the best plays by Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback Trevor Lawrence from his 275-yard, 3-TD game during Week 5 of the 2025 NFL season. Watch Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes' best ...