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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.
There's a story behind every track, or at least the good ones.
Welcome to our new music discovery feature, Listening Room, in which we share a stream of a new track and ask its creator about making it.
Today we talk...
Pitchfork announced the first wave of acts headlining at this summer's Pitchfork Music Festival in Union Park. Among the names is Don Giorgio Moroder.
Moroder, who skyrocketed back into the public consciousness in 2013 thanks to his collaboration with Daft...
Video uploaded to YouTube purported to be of the incident
An incident involving a section of plaster from the ceiling fell and injured four people and the owners of Concord Music Hall have voluntarily closed pending repairs and a city...
Stay Up: Primary Nightclub is teaming up with Them Flavors tonight for the launch of Them Flavors Thursdays, a new weekly residency at Primary (5 West Division Street, Chicago).
The launch party features a full line-up, including my friend and...
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 Chicago's John...
The ticket page just went up and it looks like it's going to go off.
Grammy-nominated (we can say that now) recording artists Disclosure will be performing in Chicago - and at Lincoln Park Zoo!
The duo will be performing live...
Hardcore Traxx, the Dance Mania compilation from Strut Records, is still slated for a release sometime in 2014 on February 11 2014.
In the meantime, the label just dropped this 15 minute "mini-documentary" and promotional video featuring Ray Barney, Parris...
It's always strange to see your favorite nightlife personalities outside of the ambience of the club, but tonight you'll be able to see them (and, provided your tinnitus isn't too bad, hear them) at a unique event for the...
Nearly any record with Robert Owens behind the mic is gonna be dubbed "soulful", but an original production from Roy Davis Jr (on the cover of 5 Mag Issue #102) and a massive array of quality remixers make "Slide"...
Christ knows if Roland can still make a piece of world-changing machinery like the 808 or 909, but the company sure does know how to make a viral video.
Following up on the frenzy caused by the release of...
We're very pleased to announce the launch of the Slap Jaxx Podcast, a new Techno mix series curated by Angel Alanis exclusively for 5 Magazine.
Slap Jaxx is the name of one of the prolific Mr. Alanis' labels, and through...
On Chicago native Spirit of the Black 808's new EP we are treated to the producer's penchant for a deep, moody and layered sound. The A side contains "King Kong" and "Guerilla Shit". "King Kong" begins with an 808...
If you've been thinking about giving up modular synths, think again. The Atlantis Eurorack Synth Module from Intellijel Designs is "inspired" by the architecture and sound of the fabled Roland SH-101, the less storied workhorse from the Roland family...
"Root Frequencies" opens with a filtered and processed sound that sounds like a phone ringing when you place the call - a signal of the call being placed, for the rhythms being summoned by The Sun God. A growling...
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 Barcelona duo...
This is Volume 16 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...
Scott Wozniak - DJ, producer and musician by night, aspiring social media comedian in his day job - has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund his debut album.
Scott has apparently he’s gone an entire career up until now without...
Paxahau, promoters of this May's Movement festival in Detroit have announced Phase 1 of their 2014 event line-up and it's everything you'd hope it would be.
Among the Detroit mainstays, it's great to see Anthony "Shake" Shakir back in the...
Amidst the noise of the Holiday weekend in Chicago, you might have missed that the city's Ghetto House icon DJ Funk just dropped a new album.
DJ Funk's Booty House Anthems 3 dropped on November 30th - a 27...
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 Jason Kidd:
"After...
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