Jacob is a Chicago-area music journalist who has written for The Wire, Resident Advisor, the Chicago Reader, the Guardian, and Wax Poetics, among other publications. He founded Gridface in 1999.
Chicago Magazine
Chicago Reader
- 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