Free Snazz (While Supplies Last)
If you missed the last one, just wait around long enough and Stevie B will make it all right. The prolific UK Garage-influenced DJ and producer has given away more music than many of...
Kim Ann Foxman: The Firehouse Rules
The alumni of Hercules and Love Affair are legion, and none has stepped out quite so far and quite so fast as Kim Ann Foxman. After collaborations with Maya Jane Coles and Nick Anthony...
Dirty Sole ft Kid Enigma: Lady
4/4 may own his heart but Kid Enigma owns this new release by Dirty Sole on Doin’ Work Records. Who did what to which is a bit over my head but the team together...
Jeremy Newall: A 5 Mag Mix vol 19
When you've spent some time immersed in underground music, it can start to feel like the real tastemakers almost never get their props. In the 1970s and 1980s, radio jocks in New York, Detroit...
Terrence Parker’s Heart Break for Melodymathics
Various Artists is killing these days (so the old joke goes). Belgian Deep House label Melodymathics is on a hell of a roll themselves. In an era in which everything is cookie-cutter and samey,...
D’Julz Edits a Chicago House Classic from Liz Torres
It was once D'Julz's secret weapon and now you can add it to your arsenal too. Chicago House legends Master C&J with Liz Torres released Queen B**** in 1992; all five tracks on the...
Roy Davis, Jr.: What The Future Looks Like
I THINK THAT THE SALES of actual vinyl will start to increase and the digital record stores will become weaker, as the streaming avenues like YouTube, etc. thanks to advertising companies, will become a...
For Frankie: Inside the Frankie Knuckles Foundation
What is the Frankie Knuckles Foundation and what does it do? We find out with Executive Director Frederick Dunson about preserving Frankie Knuckles' legacy and real House Music.
Deep Digging for Dope Records: Gemil & LCS Run For Life
There was a time - I'm sure of it - when DJs would spend the vast majority of their lives hunting down new and unknown records, often by new and unknown artists. "Secret weapons,"...
Listen To Sets from Boiler Room’s Chicago vs. Detroit Series
Did you miss the Boiler Room events in Chicago and Detroit last month? Whether you were out of town, out of the loop or want to relive it again, the Boiler Room crew have...
For Frankie: Smart Bar Announces a Massive All-Building Event
January would have marked Frankie Knuckles' 61st birthday. As one of what is rumored to be a series of commemorations, Smart Bar has announced a benefit that promises to be a blow out.
For Frankie...
Kate Simko: Today and Other Days
Used to be that when people asked me about the proverbial "next big producer out of Chicago," the first name that came to mind was Kate Simko.
I'm an unabashed fan - I bought Lights...
We’ve Got To Love (and We Do!)
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...
Pete Dafeet: Lost and Found (And Lost Again)
After many years of productions and remixes on a multitude of imprints, Lost My Dog founder Pete Dafeet finally dropped his debut album this summer, fittingly released on his own label. Several years in...
Hey Don’t Take This Shit So Serious
Straight and to the point, as befits a record like "Don't Take This Shit So Serious": youANDme collaborate with Brothers Vibe on a fierce Deep House single from Finale Sessions.
Powering up the microscope just...
Dance Music Legend Tony Humphries in Chicago for SEVEN BUCKS?!
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...
Beyond Real: DJ Spinna, circa 2015
Will Sumsuch talks to DJ Spinna about Jigmastas, Hip Hop, House, Stevie and "the strategic removal of consciousness and spirituality from the music by the industry."
A true DJ's DJ, and one of the few...
Bai-ee: A 5 Mag Mix vol 17
New mix from and interview with Bai-ee for volume 17 of A 5 Mag Mix, our flagship House Music mix and interview series for 5 Magazine.
From the Bay Area by way of Chicago, Bai-ee...
After a Pair of Free Tracks, Closer To Truth Launches Chapter One
We're sent tracks every week that sound like they were conceived, constructed and machine-tuned on an assembly line that begins in some hellhole in subterranean London and emerges with a spray-on sheen somewhere in...
Four Gigs, Six Days: Boiler Room Invades Chicago & Detroit
I-94 is the vital artery that connects the cities of Chicago and Detroit - sometimes rivals, sometimes collaborators and always, always up in each other's business.
Rarely will that road be as well-traveled as...
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Dedication: To Juan Atkins
There was never a moment before today that Juan Atkins was not a vital part of the American electronic music scene.
