Funkadelic’s “(Not Just) Knee Deep” is the best dance song ever recorded, maybe even the best song ever recorded. Upon deployment on any floor, dancers and wallflowers alike compulsively blurt out ...

I'm a sucker for grass-roots electronic music scenes. Being in a part of the Midwest that is more defined by towns than cities, it's fascinating to me how the sounds and niches change from one place ...

While we all know that the sounds of juke and footwork kicked off in Chicago, we'd be playing ourselves if we said that the only juke and footwork movements were relegated to the Windy City. The ...

Recently, the godfather of a music and dance genre known as Chicago Footwork came to London. But why are British fans so keen on this fast-paced American subculture?

Footwork is functional music at its core. It’s all in the name. Its purpose is to propel acrobatically nimble dancers into motion and send their feet flying. Drawing from the deep bowels of house and ...

DJ Rashad hovers over his laptop at a Lit City Rave hosted by New York venue 285 Kent in fall 2012. Credit: Wills Glasspiegel Spinn had been looking forward to the festival for months, but, as he says ...

Over the last decade, the popularity of the footwork music that soundtracks dance contests across the West and South sides of Chicago exploded across the UK, Europe, and Asia, captivating a global ...

Sometimes dance music needs a push. And for an increasing number of artists and fans from the late 2000s forward, the once-insular sound and competitive dance culture of Chicago’s “footwork” scene has ...

The stage at the Portage Theater doesn’t usually serve any purpose aside from putting a gap of maybe 20 feet between the first row of seats and the screen. But on the afternoon of Sunday, March 21, it ...

Somewhere along the line the devil arose from his shadowy canopy bed of bone and black silk, flossed his horns and turned all of his attention to juke and crunk, finally seeing their true brimstone ...