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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.
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A good deal of the concern - lawsuits, even - about safety at concerts is aimed at protecting the audience. In Chicago, the E2 club tragedy ten years ago is STILL a lightning rod for all manner of regulation...
I've spent too much time writing obituaries lately, and it's a fucking drag. Year by year, the number of living legends from the Disco Era grows smaller, and we're losing a lot of heroes our own age or younger...
The boys from Tortured Soul are back in town at The Shrine tonight. You knew that.
What you didn't know is that the show will be streamed live starting at 11:30pm Chicago time at theshrinechicago.com.
FYI, for those who can...
Bargains & beats, DJs and drinks: Record Store Day is Saturday, April 20, 2013, and here's a very House Music-centered guide to getting it on in Chicago:
Easy to forget, but when Record Store Day was conceived six years...
Centuries (okay, a few years) ago, Steven Harnell began recording footage for something tentatively given the very tentative title of An Untitled Documentary About House Music. A few people asked me about it, but the project seemed to be...
News about Daft Punk's forthcoming Random Access Memories - at this point, the most anticipated album in electronic music since... probably the last Daft Punk album - continues to dribble out. After the first release announcing Giorgio Moroder's collaboration...
The awesome power of a fully operational mothership is back on the road for you to touch, to feel but most of all to pound on your eardrums like a xylophone, and added a Chicago date to the itinerary....
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.
Hand-picked by curator Andrew Emil, this month's set comes to...
This is Volume 12 of Random Soul Sessions, a monthly mix series from Yogi and Husky of Australian House Music duo Random Soul exclusively for 5 Magazine.
The tracklisting and comments for this mix are below the download links.
For more...
Philadelphia's Josh Wink is releasing his first EP in four years on his acclaimed Ovum label.
"Balls", the sprawling title track, is a return of sorts to the rugged 303-based material he released in the '90s. Clocking in at...
Live events. Not to put too fine a point on it, but they suck.
If you're already a fan, watching your favorite DJ/producer rip his gear out of the studio and transport it on stage is fun, as is listening...
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.
Change Request is the new project from Four Play Music's Andrew...
File Under: Educational. Promoting Native Instruments' Maschine, MK walks us through the process of creating his remixes for Storm Queen's (aka Morgan Geist) 2010 smash "Look Right Through".
Welcome back to Random Soul Sessions, a monthly mix series from Yogi and Husky of Australian House Music duo Random Soul exclusively for 5 Magazine.
Random Soul just released their debut album, Live for the Moment, featuring collaborations with Chuck...
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.
Volume #7 features San Francisco DJ Chad Mitchell, founder of Roam...
Insomniac, the promoters behind the Electric Daisy Carnival, have announced that their festival is expanding to Chicago - the same weekend traditionally set aside by Midwest promoters for Movement (formerly and still widely known as the Detroit Electronic Music...
Someone with fewer fried brain cells than I will have to answer the question of when Frankie Knuckles last had a residency in Chicago (it's certainly happened since the PowerPlant, hasn't it?)
But he has one now. This Sunday, January...
It's appropriate that though we have the words of the ownership verbatim, I'm still not sure this isn't a hoax.
Dope Jams, Paul Nickerson and Francis Englehardt's record store in Brooklyn that mixed black wax with voodoo incense, announced they...
Welcome back to Random Soul Sessions, a monthly mix series from Yogi and Husky of Australian House Music duo Random Soul exclusively for 5 Magazine.
Random Soul is a collaboration of two of Sydney's finest DJs and Producers, Yogi &...
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.
Volume 6 features Bai-ee. The Chicaga area DJ and prodocuer (and...
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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.
