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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.
Tortured Soul's John-Christian Urich, Dusky, Eats Everything and Chicago's Summer of House in Issue #118 of 5 Magazine, Out Now.
This month, 5 Magazine talks with Tortured Soul's John-Christian Urich on the band's loss following the death of keyboard player...
Oh Derrick don't hurt 'em! May 1 is MAY DAY and Chicago celebrates with Detroit Techno pioneer Derrick May in his returns to Primary, alongside Frankie Vega and John Naster.
Friday May 1st Primary Presents: Mayday feat.
Derrick May
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Just announced: several of the headliners for the 2015 edition of North Coast Music Festival, the three day event that traditionally marks the end of Chicago's festival season with the Union Park festivites and a flurry of afterparties over...
While we're making up new genres, how about "Wild Pitch Disco"?
DJ Pierre is back with a new release on his Afro Acid label. "The Underground" leads you by the end through a dark, dangerous cellar, drawn by a...
Just a handful of the ludicrous "Record Store Day exclusives" on sale this year, most if not all courtesy of the big three major record labels.
In other words: Bono & A-ha picture discs are why you can't press a...
The growth of the market for new vinyl has lead to the UK's main chart-making firm to re-introduce vinyl charts just ahead of Record Store Day 2015.
OfficialCharts.com - the official website of the self-described "guardians" of the metrics, Official...
The dates for the 2015 Atlanta Weekender have been announced. The event - now in its fourth year - will take place over Labor Day weekend, September 3 through September 6, 2015.
Featuring a line-up of Soul, House, Afrobeat DJs,...
Musician, producer and composer Mark de Clive-Lowe is kicking off a nationwide tour of free workshops across the United States, which pulls into Chicago this April 18.
Native Instruments and SAE Institute are sponsors for the eight date/two week tour...
Chicago, send the kids to the fam and call in sick for a week, because the city hasn't seen a powerhouse event of Chicago House Music's original pioneers in a long, long time. And probably won't again!
What we think...
Notorious crate-digger Hunee will be making his debut as an album-based artist this Spring with the release of a somewhat experimental but thoroughly combustable LP, titled Hunch Music.
Rush Hour has shared a short "trailer" from Hunch Music (embedded above)...
Updated: RSVP for the March 31st Frankie Knuckles Tribute is now open. Enter the date Euro-style (DD/MM/YY).
You're not ready and we're not worthy. None of us were quite prepared for the Dance Mania and Phuture live sets when Boiler...
It was 1997, and a depressing rave in Bloomington set the scene for the Superjane DJ collective's conquest of Chicago, then the Midwest, then the nation, and then the world. That was the point of departure in XLR8R magazine's...
Our friends Yogi and Husky are back with Volume 23 of Random Soul Sessions, a House Music mix series appearing in this space each and every month from the Australian House Music duo Random Soul for 5 Magazine.
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Three days, three announcements representing the entire breadth of underground electronic music in the Midwest, from Chicago's Chosen Few Picnic to Movement in Detroit and Soulful House to Techno.
Now comes the third announcement, as the Chosen Few Picnic...
DAPHNE PRESENTS. Those two words have preceded a whole group of events in Chicago this month, tied around them like a silk ribbon or repeated like a whole block of metal type. "Daphne" refers a series of events at...
San Francisco-based label Moulton Music has reissued a track from Chicago's Johnny Fiasco and Heather with a new set of remixes.
"Soundz" was originally released in 2004 on Uniform Recordings, pairing up two of the best from Chicago's second wave...
Paxahau has announced the "Phase II" lineup for Movement 2015, the Detroit underground music festival held in Hart Plaza, Detroit on May 23, 24 and 25, 2015.
Among the headliners this time around are Method Man, Classixx, Eddie Fowlkes, Jay...
Was it just a year ago that we were praising the "quirky" Broken Keyboard EP by Max Graef, introduced to us by the good offices of Detroit Swindle? Them Flavors welcomes Max to Primary on March 19 with No...
The Chosen Few DJs have announced the line-up for the 2015 Chosen Few Picnic.
Louie Vega and Kenny Dope (Masters at Work, NYC) are among the guests at this year's event -- the 25th annual, to be sure -- along...
Chart action doesn't mean much in dance music these days, but having a track debuted in a set by Pete Tong, dance music's global ambassador, on Radio 1 can still jumpstart a career. He'll be making a rare Chicago...
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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.
