RH Collectors: DJ RTC

Many music heads are also collectors. There’s a common thread between seeking out new and rare sounds and using that same drive to acquire and celebrate other passions that ties collectors of all kinds. RH Collectors is a series that aims to showcase the collections of the various music heads in Chicago and beyond. In […]

[Video] Mic Terror: “15 Minutes”

March 4, Chicago independent hip-hop label Closed Sessions will be releasing the latest project for Treated Crew’s Mic Terror, titled The Fresh Prince of Darkness. The video, a cinematic piece directed and shot by Andrew Zeiter and Bryan Lamb, follows Mic and Hollywood Holt as they figure out how to ties up the loose ends […]

Alex Wiley Releases Four New Tracks

One of the more impressive debut projects from last year was Alex Wiley‘s banger-heavy Club Wiley, distributed by Chicago independent label, Closed Sessions. Released at the beginning of the summer, a steady stream of videos and support shows both in and out of his hometown have brought Wiley to the forefront of the next wave of […]

[RH Interview] Closed Session’s Alex Fruchter

Photo by Andrew Zeiter Alex Fruchter has long been a mainstay in the Chicago hip-hop market. First as a DJ under the moniker DJ RTC, then as the head of this very website which he and our current editor, Virgil Solis, built alongside Fruchter’s budding Closed Sessions project that spawned Chicago’s leading independent hip-hop label […]