Last month I saw Chicago footwork producer DJ Taye perform in the middle of the afternoon in 38-degree weather on a stubby stage set up in the street next to the Empty Bottle. His set was part of the ...

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 ...

Amid a turbulent, viscerally eerie beat, Kanye West’s voice emerges, “I was on opioids / I was on opioids.” The vocals appear on DJ Spinn’s new track, “True Story (Opioids),” a sampling from Kanye’s ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Footwork is a fast-paced style of dance and electronic music that emerged from Chicago's West Side in the 1990s. Today, footwork is a global phenomenon. "We changed up the style of ...

“D . . . DJ . . . DJ Elmoe . . . El,” announces a laid-back, distorted voice in the first moments of Bangs & Works Vol. 1, a classic compilation of Chicago footwork released in 2010 by UK label Planet ...

Earlier this evening Detroit producer DJ Godfather tweeted that footwork DJ and Teklife founder DJ Rashad has passed away. The news was confirmed by Rashad’s former touring act and friend Chance the ...

Update: (5/1): DJ Rashad's label Hyperdub has told UK newspaper The Guardian that the footwork producer "died as a result of complications arising from a blood clot in his leg." Apparently Rashad had ...

While on tour last year, Earl Smith stood atop the Great Pyramid of Cholula in Mexico, an iconic structure that first began its ascent around 2,000 years ago, and thought, Damn, how did I get here?