Justin Myers, who lives in Plano, is a project manager in tech by day and a part-time DJ with a passion for vinyl. This is part of an Arts Access series called “Home is where the art is,” which gives ...

Legendary DJ Funk Flex has more than the vinyl under his fingertips and Hot 97’s annual Hip-Hop festival Summer Jam is about more than the number of seats it fills. For more than 20 years, both Funk ...

When SETI X—the San Francisco-based emcee and recipient of the Pharrell Williams-backed J Dilla Music Tech Grant—told me about a small brick-and-mortar he co-owned with Delrokz, a turntablist and ...

Chicago-born ghetto house DJ, producer, and label head DJ Funk has died aged 54, close friend and collaborator DJ Slugo has confirmed in a post on Instagram. In a video, Slugo explained that he had ...

Vinyl has made an epic comeback over the past decade. It’s a comeback few would have seen coming, given its seeming fall into obsolescence decades ago. But while the above-average music fans have ...

While some people are content to spend Sunday nights at home, a group of San Francisco DJs have made Sunday the night to hit the dance floor. The tight but amorphous crew behind Sweater Funk digs deep ...

DJ Funk, a Chicago-born musician and producer who coined the “ghetto house,” has died at age 54. Funk, whose real name was Charles Chambers, had been “bravely” battling stage 4 cancer before his death ...

A needle drops on a turntable, the snare of a drum machine slaps against slippery guitar rhythms and slinky bass grooves, and the dance floor of Original Mike’s in Santa Ana gets shocked back into ...

Justin Myers has collected vinyl records for about a decade. It’s become an obsession after his wife gave him a record player. “Since then, I’ve just been collecting like crazy all the time. Daily ...