Chicago
He was a champion of the city’s underground scene...
Dan Jugle, the influential, Chicago-based techno and experimental artist, died this past weekend.
Jugle was a champion of the Chicago underground scene. He was best...
Music to get you in the mood for the rave from a techno icon with an unwavering love of bass...
DJ Rush is a techno icon.
A selector since the late '80s, cutting his teeth with a residency at the Reactor in Chicago, he quickly...
Best of North America 2018
As the birthplace of house music, Chicago remains home to one of the brightest and most promising dance music scenes in North America. Chi-town’s own...
Amir Alexander's ‘Deep Blue Sea' is a journey into the depths of classic techno forms...
Amir Alexander has been producing music since 1998. A dedicant to club music in its most natural state, the Chicago native, Malmö-based artist has always...
A new photo exhibition in London is giving an inside look into the glory days of Chicago disco and funk...
In the ‘80s, Chicago birthed house music, the world-renowned movement that’s kept us dancing and smiling for more than three decades. Chi-Town also gave us...
The Black Madonna is the real deal. Raised in Kentucky but born in the DJ booth of Chicago's Smartbar, she's unleashed the true spirit of...
It’s a Sunday in 2015 on the third day of UK festival Field Maneuvers, a back to basics ‘dirty little rave’ held in a eld just...
12-dates across the Americas ...
Nina Kraviz has announced a year-end tour across the Americas. The tour commences 16th November in Austin, Texas.
The tour, dubbed ‘NK Overseas’, runs through...
Floating Points was due to play in April...
Double Door in Chicago has been forced to shut its door after 23 years in business.
Located on Milwaukee Avenue in the Windy City, the...
DJ Pierre, DJ Hyperactive & more all spin on Saturday 28th January...
Daft Punk released their debut album, ‘Homework’, 20 years ago this year, and to mark the occasion Boiler Room have planned a tribute show which...
A 42% visa price hike is coming into effect in December...
United States’ Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced a 42% rate hike for foreign artists applying for a visa to work in the U.S...
Decision gives tax breaks to small venues...
Following a debate, Cook County — the Illinois municipality which covers the city of Chicago — is set to officially recognise DJ shows as cultural...
We pick out 10 of the best books inspired by the early days of acid house
“Those were good days in Edinburgh, in 1990,” says author and screenwriter Trevor Miller, who wrote the acid house culture’s first novel, published in...
Presented by Chicago’s Moody Recordings
Legendary Chicago house label Moody Recordings presents its newest compilation, IBIZA CLOSING 2014. A perfect perfect end of summer fix, soundtracking the season’s...
DJ Mag chats to DJ Pierre about the first proper acid house track...
Nathaniel Pierre Jones was forever tinkering around with electronic devices and mending watches when he was a kid growing up in Chicago.
“I just naturally...
Dance Mania transformed Chicago house from its '80s roots to a rough, raw, x-rated version that banged harder than anyone else. Now, after 13 years...
If Live Nation, SFX and Beatport owner Robert Sillerman is hoping to monopolize the world of EDM, then he may just be copying Daft Punk...
Kansas-born, Brooklyn-based Beckwith is breaking through with a fresh house sound founded on bulbous bass and crisp melodies. We find out how he's one of...
“I am from the Midwest, the real Midwest, like Kansas. Remember Dorothy and the Wizard? Well that’s where I am from.” Beckwith grew up so...
Dani Deahl gives us the truth about chicks with decks
Chicago DJ, Dani Deahl sets the record straight about female DJs by sharing five truisms about women jockeys with DJ Mag.
1. "We have a...
Housemeister pays tribute to Dance Mania
A special mix this week from Berliner Housemeister.
Dedicated to the sound pioneered by Chicago house label Dance Mania throughout the '90s, when its tough...
Bring back the jack sound
“'To bring back the jack sound’ was our mission when we started Snuff Crew,” Snuffo from the crew tells DJ Mag, going on to state that the old skool Chicago jack sound never really went away and there have been others who have referenced it.