Hello! I’m a music journalist with a focus on house, techno, and experimental 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.

Below are highlights of my work. Additionally, I’ve written for Chicago Magazine, Faith Fanzine, and Wax Poetics, and I’ve authored liner notes for Still Music and other record labels.

New Post: Chris Nazuka Interview

Chicago Reader

• Radius grows beyond Chicago beat battles
• Day Glow Modular’s Night Beams at Illuminated Brew Works
• The good of the night: remembering DJ Teri Bristol
• 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…
• After seven years away, Africa Hi-Fi returns for one night in Hyde Park
• Virgo Four, Round Two

The Wire

• DJ M-TRAXXX
• 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
• Phuture’s Earl “Spanky” 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

Multimedia

• Disco’s Revenge: House Music (YouTube)
• Ron Hardy @ Muzic Box, Chicago 1984 Side A, Byron Burke Interview, Manny’z Tapez (Soundcloud)
• Ron Hardy @ Muzic Box, Chicago 1984 Side B, David Britton Interview, Manny’z Tapez (Soundcloud)

Discussion Panels

• Viva Acid 2023 (Panelist): Socio-Political Activism in Acid House; Urban Development & The Birth of Acid House
• Chicago House Music Conference 2023 (Moderator): Played & Paid, Strategies for Monetizing Music and Promoting Successful Events