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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.
We've just received the sad and shocking news that Andre Harris - long a mainstay of the Chicago House scene - passed away last week.
The announcement was made in a joint statement by Roy Davis, Jr, Mark Grant, Jeff...
As announced previously, this June 3, 2014, the City of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events will be holding a dance party in Millennium Park to pay tribute to Frankie Knuckles.
The festivities will begin at 6pm at...
This is Volume 18 of Random Soul Sessions, a mix series appearing in this space each and every month from Yogi and Husky of Australian House Music duo Random Soul exclusively for 5 Magazine.
The tracklisting and comments for this...
DJs today are confronted with an astonishing number of choices, from vinyl to digital media, controllers, mixers, and the unending stream of more music being released for consumption than at any time in history.
It's all a bit overwhelming. We...
Rob Threezy and DJ Rampage mix this week's SLAPCAST, the Slap Jaxx Podcast techno mix series curated by Chicago's Angel Alanis exclusively for 5 Magazine.
This set was recorded live at the Techno For A Cause event at Chicago's Primary...
The City of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events has revealed the date and location for a special all-city tribute and dance party in tribute to Frankie Knuckles.
The event will be held on Tuesday, June 3, 2014...
Four Play Sessions is a mix series from Chicago's Four Play Music and featuring the talents of Mr. Andrew Emil & Friends, published each month exclusively for 5 Magazine.
Curated by Andrew Emil, this month's set is from Problematic Disko.
Problematic...
DJ Rashad's friends are coming together on Thursday May 15 at Evil Olive for a tribute to the fallen juke & footwork producer and DJ, presented by Evil Olive with Teklife and Paul Johnson.
Scheduled to play thus far:
DJ Spinn
Traxman
Gant-Man
DJ...
Japanese DJ ATTA takes over this week's SLAPCAST, the Slap Jaxx Podcast techno mix series curated by Chicago's Angel Alanis exclusively for 5 Magazine.
Born in 1987 and based on Awaji Island, Japan, ATTA is a producer and undisputed DJ...
Four Play Sessions is a mix series from Chicago's Four Play Music and featuring the talents of Mr. Andrew Emil & Friends, published each month exclusively for 5 Magazine.
Curated by Andrew Emil, this month's set is from Luis Garay.
Luis...
I checked Hotels.com, Cheapohotels.com, CheapestHotelsInThePlanet.com - you name it. The best I could get for a TWO star hotel room and up ranged from between $331 to $850 a night. And every review of the rooms was horrid.
This pretty...
It's not too late (and it won't be until it's over) to attend the 11th Annual Creative Chicago Expo, which is being held this Friday March 14 and Saturday March 15, 2014 from 10am-4pm at the Chicago Cultural Center...
This is Volume 17 of Random Soul Sessions, a mix series appearing in this space each and every month from Yogi and Husky of Australian House Music duo Random Soul exclusively for 5 Magazine.
The tracklisting and comments for this...
(Massive respect here to Davey Dave, Ray Barney and Parris Mitchell and all of those off-camera that done the damn thing.)
Preserving this for posterity in one spot: all video and audio mixes of the Dance Mania at Boiler Room...
Our man Andrew Emil of Chicago's Four Play Music (they do a monthly mix session for us here) dropped off a dub of Janet Jackson's "Rock With U". It's a free download and in exchange I (not Andrew) am...
Manchester house fanatic Lee Daley mixes volume 192 of New Mix Monday, 5 Magazine's weekly guest mix series.
Lee Daley's roots run deep in the storied Manchester music scene: from his early days playing local bars, clubs, the "Afterhours" party...
Here we are now - Volume 2 of the Slap Jaxx Podcast - the SLAPCAST, if you will - a new Techno mix series curated by Angel Alanis exclusively for 5 Magazine.
Volume 2 is a set from Chicago techno...
This film is a treasure, one of the strangest, most bizarre, most fascinating music documentaries ever made. You probably haven't seen it before and you've certainly never seen anything like it.
This is "So Wrong They're Right", a documentary from...
Planet-devouring EDM borg SFX has agreed to purchase one of the Midwest's largest independent dance music promoters.
SFX and its ageless, hairless leader, Robert F.X. Sillerman, has added Chicago-based React Presents to its portfolio; React's Jeff Callahan added in a...
King Street sister label Street King has announced a package of remix for Vanilla Ace's "You're Not Mine". Originally released in September 2013, "You're Not Mine" gets treated by Bordertown, Jamie Antonelli, Apollo 84 and Souljackerz.
Bordertown's bouncy remix...
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