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 ...

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 ...

Since 2013’s critically acclaimed Double Cup album, the leaders of Chicago’s unique juke and footwork sounds, DJ Rashad and DJ Spinn, have been steadily winning an international fan base. Their ...

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 ...

Launched in 2024 by a group of 160 BPM enthusiasts, Korea’s “only” footwork event is building a bridge between Chicago and Seoul – all while encouraging clubbers to get a sweat on Functions is our ...

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 ...

The Chicago Reader is back in print! Our February issue is being delivered to more than 600 locations across the city beginning February 4. Find the closest newspaper box, coffee shop, bar, library ...

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 ...

CHICAGO – Rashad Harden, a house music and footwork pioneer who performed as DJ Rashad, was found dead over the weekend in Chicago of an apparent drug overdose, authorities said Sunday. He was 34.

A pioneer of footwork, juke-informed house music, his death comes weeks after that of another Chicago legend, Frankie Knuckles. By Harley Brown, Billboard Chicago footwork mastermind DJ Rashad has ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Don Babwin and Ru Johnson UPDATE MAY 1: Though it was previously reported that DJ Rashad died of an apparent drug overdose, the family’s coroner says that ...