The Meaning Is In The Title: Rick Wade: Defining Deep (Harmonie Park)
When Rick Wade keeps a record to himself and sets it aside for the Harmonie Park catalog, you know it's gonna be dangerous. The meaning is in the title alone: Defining Deep is a...
Pittsburgh, Again: Detour 001 Featuring Pittsburgh Track Authority, Mirko, Gusto, Naeem
As a Chicagoan, it's scandalous to see a Pittsburgh scene powered by such relatively few resources but grinding away such a feverish pace. With barely 10% of Chicago's population and nearly always in the...
Joey Negro Mix: Live at Goldfish in Sydney February 28 2014
Update: Our man Joey Negro just sent us an exclusive mix ahead of his date this Friday, March 21, 2014 at Primary Nightclub in Chicago.
Here we go now: Joey Negro (who we interviewed for...
How I Play: Joey Negro on the Culture and Craft of DJing
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...
Jorge Caiado Mixes New Mix Monday vol 193
Balance Recordings and Groovement artist mixes vol 193 of weekly House Music mix series.
John Morales Remixes Marc Evans: The Supernatural Communication EP (M+M Mixes)
Never pass up a record with a John Morales remix. That rule should have been carved into your crate or sewn into the inseam of your record bag three decades ago. Every time I've...
Praising the Frique: The Disco Never Dies EP from Farris Wheel
If I had to nominate just one DJ to represent everything Chicago stands for as a city, a people and a musical sanctuary, that DJ would be Frique. Let me explain for those from...
Lee Daley: New Mix Monday vol 192
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...
Moodymann: Moodymann (album) LP
This is likely the least influential sentence I'm ever going to write, except for the next one. This entire paragraph won't sell a single record, and this entire page probably won't influence a single...
Various People EP from Plastik People Recordings
This is probably the only "various artists" EP you need concern yourself with for the next few months. Louie "Balo" Guzman's "Don't Shut Me Out" is one of those records that deserves a shelf...
Gari Romalis and Barce: The Web (Melodymathics)
Melodymathics is a new-ish label with a mission to "showcase newcomers" alongside established artists. Mission accomplished. I've heard at least four records from Gari Romalis this year, and though his EPs on Hizou and...
Specter: The Gooch (Sound Signature)
This is like reading the back of a pack of Chinese firecrackers: light quickly and run away. Drop the needle anywhere, at any point on any of the three tracks of Specter's new EP...
Listening Room: Kelly Sylvia on Remedy (Blood and Stone)
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...
Roy Davis Jr. – 5 Magazine’s January 2014 Cover Profile
At a time when dance music is now outselling Hip-Hop, we can shamelessly go with the glass half full analogy and say that the EDM scene is revitalizing the underground. New fans are primed,...
Kid Enigma: The Evocator EP
Whatever part of this industry you're in, if you take this shit with the slightest degree of seriousness, you're a masochist. We fight and claw our ways through the highs and lows year after...
Disclosure Just Announced They’re Playing Chicago – at Lincoln Park Zoo
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...
Hunee: The 5 Magazine Interview
In contrast to the sterile one hour sets that are a by-product of the computer age, Berlin-based DJ and producer Hunee is known for his adventurous, extended sets, dropping disco with techno, acid with...
Stream: Roy Davis Jr, Robert Owens and an All Star Cast on Slide
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...
Marc Cotterell: New Mix Monday vol 191
Marc Cotterell mixes volume 191 of New Mix Monday, 5 Magazine's weekly guest mix series.
English-born but living in the US, Marc Cotterell is a DJ, committed vinyl junkie and owner of Plastik People Recordings....
Dungeon Meat / SE62: The Fuck Off Track / True Force
This is where it's at, the kind of shit that gets me excited. There's music you hear and you just want to put on infinite play on a celestial jukebox so the whole world...
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Library of Congress adds Jamie Principle’s “Your Love” to National Recording Registry
The classic of classic Chicago house tracks was selected for preservation as one of "the defining sounds of history and culture." Here's how it was made.
