Apple Music is the right product at the wrong price. Music subscriptions based on human curation and discovery are the future, but putting more than 30 million songs behind a paywall won't help ...

Pivot Gang will go down as one of the most important and prolific artist collectives in Chicago hip-hop history, even though most casual fans haven’t caught on to their music yet. These seasoned ...

FM synthesis can be notoriously tricky. For all the success of Yamaha's DX7 in the 1980s, its bafflingly mathematical system of operators and algorithms, and the seemingly endless parameter menus, ...

John Walt performs as Dinner With John during a Pivot Gang showcase at Lincoln Hall on January 6, 2017—about a month before he was killed. His mother says, “That was one of the best days of his life.” ...

A studio is a funny place. It's a hangout spot, but it's also a workplace. Rappers spend long hours in the studio, but they're not partying; they're working. They're working even when they're partying ...

Four years ago, Pivot Gang, the Chicago rap crew led by Saba, released their group album You Can'd Sit With Us. Since then, the group has lost producer Squeak, who died last year at 26. The members of ...