This article was originally published in SPIN on November 25, 2013. Way back in the mid-1980s, when the disco gods appeared over the Chicago skyline and proclaimed, “Let there be house,” his acolytes ...

"A Rational Conversation" is a column by writer Eric Ducker in which he gets on iChat or Gchat or the phone or whatever with a special guest to examine a music-related subject that's entered the pop ...

Before the misleading Beatport charts, the YouTube videos filled with semi-nude girls and the badly-curated Spotify playlists, deep house actually meant something. Slower tempo, brooding bass, droning ...