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
- 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
Chicago Magazine
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
Boiler Room
The Guardian
Wax Poetics
- Persona Records/Pillars of the Underground