5 Magazine
House Music magazine publishing for more than 12 years from Chicago, covering Deep House, Soulful House, Techno, Synth, Disco and every flavor of underground electronic music.
WIRED FRIDAYS is back for Fall 2015 featuring House Music first and third Fridays, including DJs Cajmere, Derrick Carter, Roy Davis Jr, Mickey Oliver and Merwyn Sanders.
The daytime downtown dance party sponsored by the City of Chicago Department of...
Upgrade with confidence, or at least only minor terror.
You can cross off one list of apps from the OS X incompatibility list.
Pioneer has unveiled a series of patches on Thursday which fix incompatibility between six of their controllers, mixers...
Break out your cassette tapes: Chicago's original house party is back.
Chicago's Hot Mix 5 are an essential part of dance music history, having carried the sound far beyond what WBMX's wattage could reach. The Saturday Night Live Ain't...
One of Frankie Knuckles' most anticipated unreleased remixes has finally seen the light of day. We've Got To Love by Joe Smooth and Paris Brightledge gets the Director's Cut treatment.
One of Frankie Knuckles' most anticipated unreleased remixes has finally...
Vintage Chicago electronic music promoters Incredibeets and Mushgroove are back in business on Black Wednesday.
Coming November 25, 2015, the two present Blessings at Primary. The "blacklight party" asks guests to dress to let your soul glow to the...
Next Time For 45: It was 33 and a third years ago (July 1982) that Joe Shanahan opened Smart Bar. From Frankie Knuckles and Joe Smooth to outré figures like future MIT Media Lab head Joi Ito (one of...
Issue #124 of 5 Magazine is now available!
Inside this issue:
We asked you to come and you did: behind the scenes and on the floor of our 10 year anniversary jam at Primary last month through some incredible photos...
There are about five people on this planet that you can say were genuinely irreplaceable in House Music - that if you could somehow take out their contributions from the stream and pour them down the drain, things wouldn't...
Dallas based record store Josey Records - which has somehow managed to tie the term "mega-store" to their independent operation - has purchased A&R Records, according to the Dallas Observer. A&R was the only vinyl pressing plant in Texas...
Made in Chicago like God intended and on vinyl for the pleasure of man, Tied001 is, as you might reckon, the debut release from the Chicago artist collective and party people Tied, who in its DJ incarnation at least...
React Presents has announced four official afterparties for this Halloween's Freaky Deaky Music Festival, which takes place October 30, 31st and November 1st 2015 at Toyota Park (7000 Harlem Avenue in Bridgeview).
Starting off, Jackmaster joins Breach, Zebo, Inphinity and...
Pioneer is dropping what the company calls the "most compact, portable and flexible digital player" for DJs yet.
The XDJ-700 is a slimmed down sibling to the Pioneer XDJ-1000, featuring a touchscreen, Pro DJ Link and rekordbox-ready capabilities with...
The House Sound of Chicago stomps forward with another fiery plate from DJ Pierre, this time alongside Italian production duo Supernova and Afro Acid youngblood Raskal.
"Back 2 House" bangs the favorite vocal of jack tracks throughout history - "House!"...
The final Hot Lunch Mix of the season with the Chosen Few DJs takes place October 7 under the Picasso in Daley Plaza from noon to 1pm.
All summer long, The Chosen Few DJs have played lunchtime gigs outdoors at...
5 Magazine marks our ten year anniversary, with a look back through a decade of covering Chicago's House Music scene and a look ahead by 12 industry insiders.
What were some of the other names we mulled over before settling...
Nicole Moudaber's latest collaboration pairs the UK-based producer up with Skin. "You Like This" is a strange track, featuring Nicole's trademark sinister Techno and creaky synthesized string stabs contrasted with Skin's ebullient vocal. It's like the theme song for...
Tell The World He's Here: DJ E-Clyps new LP drops October 2 2015 but the first single is available now.
Twenty three tracks is quite long for an album (especially if it's not juke). But that's the length of 5...
Here in Chicago we’re quite fond of our Filipino community. And if you know where to venture (mainly on the northwest side), you’ll find tons of delicious Philippine restaurants and mini marts that abound. On Sunday October 4th, food...
Disclosure dropped today a rather bizarre album promo for their forthcoming LP Caracal. The highly anticipated album (which might well be the buoy that measures whether at least one of the Dance Music Bubbles are about to pop) features...
One of the most reliable dates on the calendar over the last six years, Oktave remains one of Chicago's most underrated residencies. The SmartBar night presided over by resident DJ Jeff Derringer turns six this weekend with special guests...
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Vitality: Inside the New Issue of 5 Mag
DJ Three on the cover, Jimpster on 30 Years of Freerange, Ryan Sadorus on House of Beretta, Fred Everything and Teuteu live keys + DJ cover mix and more.
