Chicago House Cleaning Service

Rekids’ generational run of great house music albums continues with Contemporary, the new collection of dancefloor-friendly deep house tracks from Oliver Dollar. Source

Once lost, now found: the soulful side of Paul Johnson in full color in this restored mix Paul recorded exclusively for 5 Magazine in 2010. Source

After a month-long hiatus, the Chicago Reader is returning to print in February as a reformatted monthly publication. Source

North Coast Music Festival returns for its 16th year from September 4 through September 6 2026. Source

One man died and six others were hospitalized at the first day of the two day Dreamstate Festival in Sydney this weekend. Source

Super high quality package from Bradley Zero’s Rhythm Section featuring four tracks from Brooklyn duo musclecars with Toribio and Roland Clark on vocals hovering on the organic, jazz-ish end of the house spectrum. Source

Harold Heath looks back at some of 2025’s best electronic music albums, including DJ Bone’s The End of Never – an album of machine music with soul. Source

Lunacy makes “sonic playgrounds for music makers,” with several popular plugins like granular synth engine Grains and the Beam effects rack. This year they dropped a couple freebies, the best of which is Haze. Source

Save the Date: The Chicago House Music Festival and Chicago House Music Conference return in August 2026. Source

Nine expertly crafted tracks of alt-disco, deep-house, leftfield 4/4, digital boogie, future soul, R’n’Chug and forward-thinking sonic hybridizing on the very good Almost Music album from UK producer, DJ and musician Rob Mac and violinist/synth player Lucy Wilkins’ new Land Of Echo project. Source