"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 ...

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 ...

You might expect a set of dusty disco and deep house from the house legend Moodymann. But his first officially licensed mix CD, for the 51st entry in the DJ-Kicks series, confounds expectations ...