Hello! I’m a Chicago-area music journalist with a focus on electronic music. I founded this site in 1999. Its most popular feature is a collection of classic Chicago house mixes by Ron Hardy and Frankie Knuckles. Feel free to contact me with article ideas or new music. Below are highlights of my freelance work.
Chicago Reader
- Jana Rush engineers her own empowerment
- Farewell to unsung house-music architect Rodney Bakerr
- A eulogy for Danny’s Tavern
- Remembering Benji Espinoza, champion of Chicago house music
- 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
Chicago Magazine
- Damon Locks and Black Monument Ensemble Make Music for the Moment
- A Digital Encyclopedia of Chicago’s Black Music History
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