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Articles by Jacob Arnold

Jacob Arnold DJing at the Whistler

Hello! I’m a Chicago-area music journalist who has written for the publications below. I founded Gridface (this site) in 1999, but don’t update it as frequently these days. Feel free to contact me with article ideas or new music.

Chicago Reader

  • A eulogy for Danny’s Tavern
  • Remembering Benji Espinoza, champion of Chicago house music
  • The best Chicago albums of the 2010s
  • The B-52s gave Chicago one last gift at Riot Fest
  • Open the Circle Teaches Footwork Because Footwork Saves Lives
  • After seven years away, Africa Hi-Fi returns for one night in Hyde Park
  • Virgo Four, Round Two

The Wire

  • Orchestras in the Club
  • Larry Heard: Solitary Refinement
  • Once Upon A Time In The Midwest; Playlist
  • Hieroglyphic Being: Infinity Man
  • Invisible Jukebox: RP Boo

Resident Advisor

  • Label of the Month: Kimochi
  • Obituary: Earl Smith
  • The Chosen Few Picnic: Original House Heads
  • Steve Poindexter: That Raw Basement Sound
  • Frankie Knuckles: Waiting on My Angel
  • Medusa’s: Chicago’s Missing Link
  • Romanthony: The Wanderer
  • Dance Mania: Ghetto House’s Motown
  • The Warehouse: The Place House Music Got its Name

RBMA Daily

  • When Techno Was House
  • Importes, Etc.
  • Chicago Discos in 1979
  • Ron Hardy at the Music Box
  • The Den: Ron Hardy’s First Year as a DJ
  • House Music’s Detail Shop

The Guardian

  • Fancy footwork: how Chicago’s juke scene found its feet again

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