Richard Earnshaw: The 5 Magazine Interview
IT'S BEEN FIVE YEARS since 5 Magazine last caught up with Soulful House maestro, Duffnote boss and one half of Spiritchaser, Richard Earnshaw. Since that last conversation he's released his debut solo album, In...
Boogie Wonderland: The Genius of Earth, Wind and Fire
Editor's Note: Originally published in October 2012, we pulled this out of the archives in honor of the late Maurice White. RIP.
They produced the first album I ever bought (Cameo's "Rigor Mortis" was my...
Extraordinary Magnitude: ExMag Comes To Chicago
There’s something deliciously sexy when you hear the future funk downtempo sounds of Extraordinary Magnitude. ExMag is a collaboration of producers with big names in their own right: Eric Mendelson, Mike Lannatto and Tyler...
FOUNDATIONS: The Essential WAR Playlist
Straight out of South Central Los Angeles, WAR fused genres and delivered pointed messages about race, poverty and conflict over an uplifting groove.
DEL selects 14 essentially tracks from WAR's storied career for the Essential...
DJ Psycho: “Staying Still is Death”
Greatly loved, highly outspoken, Dezi Magby aka DJ Psycho from Detroit is a madman behind the tables, his wildly kinetic sets leaving an unforgettable imprint in our psyche.
The Flint native recently came to...
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...
Can House Music Stop the Violence in Chicago?
CHICAGO HAS FOREVER had a troubled history with violence in its inner city neighborhoods, with a total of over 2000 people shot and wounded this year alone. When Angie Tribett received a call from...
Rich Medina: What The Future Looks Like
IN FIVE TO TEN YEARS, DJs who cannot function without digital music will hit a wall and be forced to turn back to the analog basics in some way, shape or form, as...
Tommie Sunshine: What The Future Looks Like
I BELIEVE people will get interested in what House Music was all about in the beginning: the feeling. I predict there will a gravitational pull towards the real and towards anything that evokes an...
Steve “Silk” Hurley: What The Future Looks Like
FIVE YEARS FROM NOW I have a feeling that House Music will have made a complete comeback to where it was in the early '90s, but with even more commercial success. I believe it...
Rees Urban: What The Future Looks Like
AT THIS POINT I'M absolutely lost with the direction of dance music. It's at an all time high as far as the fanbase is under the umbrella of EDM, but at an all time...
Mark de Clive-Lowe: What The Future Looks Like
TEN YEARS AGO this industry was totally different - digital was an unknown and divisive newcomer and the old guard still dictated the way most of the industry worked. Now we're in a time...
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...
Mark Farina: What The Future Looks Like
TEN YEARS FROM NOW... good music will still be good music and bad will still be bad. All the sub-genres established by the early sounds of House and Techno will change names/titles and be...
Joe Shanahan: What The Future Looks Like
I DO NOT HAVE A CRYSTAL BALL, it is more like a mirror ball. I feel it will be as it always has been for decades: about community and the support that community gives...
John-Christian Urich: What The Future Looks Like
I THINK WE ARE GOING TO SEE some cooler, smaller niche festivals (3,000 to 5,000 people) gathering for weekenders and I also think we're going to see more venues that combine different forms of...
Terry Hunter: What The Future Looks Like
I THINK IN THREE YEARS we will have a drastic shift in music as we know it... We all know everything comes in cycles so I predict more well written and produced projects with...
Joey Negro: What The Future Looks Like
EXPERIENCE HAS TAUGHT ME that guessing the future of anything is pretty much impossible; at best you might get it half right. If you'd asked me in 2005 where dance music would be in...
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.
Straight Outta South Central LA: It’s a WAR
Conflict is loved by few, disliked by most, and needed at times. Musically, conflict can be defined as a fusion of genres, a cacophony of sounds, key or tempo changes, and even actual conflict...
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elevate: Nico Lahs, Dam Swindle, Heist in the new 5 Mag
Nico Lahs on the cover, Dam Swindle cover mix, 100 releases of Heist Recordings, Point Winona and the LA underground and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag.
