A storied company continues to gut staff and reportedly shift product manufacturing overseas under new ownership.

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A single AI music company claims it has created 14% of the world's recorded music and are flooding streaming platforms. Who, or what, is Boomy?

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The dopest music, we all know, lives in the margins - the hand-stamped white label, the disco/drone mix up, the strange music that comes from artists that don't sound like something we already love.

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Riot Fest's contentious relationship with residents around Douglass Park has put a spotlight on the privatization of Chicago's neighborhood green spaces, locking out local residents by for-profit festivals.

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Streaming has spawned a new format for dance music that's hostile to DJs, and seemingly unaware of what a DJ even does.

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A who's who of classic Chicago House artists have launched a legal strike to reclaim their rights from Trax Records. A reckoning over the past has been a long time coming...

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Resources for a post-Roe America: how to fund and how to find abortion services after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade.

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The spectacular implosion of a tech startup called "Fast" reveals how venture capital, start-ups & influencer culture are burning up the EDM scene.

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Your AirPods will last longer on this planet than your bones, if they doesn't explode first.

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Harold Heath drags you through another tumultuous year in dance music. You're going to re-live it, and you're going to LIKE it

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