Streamwashed: Big tech, little money and how music marketing went crazy
If there's anything in your heart that still harbors something like love for the music industry, stay far away when musicians talk shop about marketing.
#Video Stacey Pullen backstage at Movement
What advice do you have for DJs trying to break through? Stacey Pullen on prepping for his Movement 2024 set. #movementfestival chronicles #techno #detroit
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Step Inside: Behind the Scenes with Chicago’s Elevator Music
5 Mag's Czarina Mirani meets the anonymous crew behind Chicago's Elevator Music platform and viral livestreaming DJ sets.
#Video Dames Brown backstage at Movement
Czboogie catches Dames Brown backstage at Movement Festival 2024 to talk the trio's origins, Defected and the late, great Amp Fiddler.
DJ Paulette: Welcome to the Club
Will Sumsuch speaks to the legendary DJ about her memoir "Welcome To The Club: The Life & Lessons of a Black Woman DJ."
#Video DJ Holographic preparing to play Movement Festival
What makes preparing to DJ a Movement set different from any other set?
“The Voice of House Music” Chuck Roberts has died
Chicago house icon Chuck Roberts, famous for the "In the beginning there was jack..." sermon, has passed away after a battle with cancer.
Seven Davis, Jr: “This is absolutely me now & me going forward”
Seven Unfiltered: 5 Mag's cover story with one of the most talented people we've ever met: Seven Davis Jr.
The Best Site You Never Heard Of
Ampled had everything you want from a pro-musician platform. So why did it fail?
Elbert Phillips: Tears
Elbert Phillips & Andre Espeut deliver a sensational cover of the Frankie Knuckles, Satoshi Tomiie and Robert Owens classic
Entering Dark Heaven
Ecstatically raging through the city’s underground, Prov Krivoshey (aka VORP) and Asha Rahaylia expand their event series into Chicago’s most exciting new label.
Revisionist BBC documentary “Disco: The Soundtrack of a Revolution” comes to the US
The three part series produced by the BBC is one of a number of new documentaries that correctly re-frame disco from a story of sex, drugs and bad jokes to the revolutionary movement which birthed contemporary culture.
Chicago’s Secret Spot: One Year of Miyagi Records
From a pop up in a storage space to a brick-and-mortar record store, Hyde Park's Miyagi Records talks to 5 Mag on one year of building community and creating your very own secret spot on the Southside of Chicago.
Black Eyes: This Is A Broadcast From The Future
5 Mag meets Black Eyes, the Mancunian producer whose label Lost Control 2097 is capturing a certain raw, sometimes psychedelic but viscerally rhythmic brand of techno and deep house.
The Year Discogs Shit The Bed
Ravenomics: Jacked fees and chaos brought all of the record platform's faults to the surface.
New show features Muzic Box interviews & unheard Ron Hardy mixtape
Jacob Arnold interviews about the classic Chicago club the Music Box precede a Ron Hardy mix from 1984 from the archives of DJ M-Traxxx.
Toribio: Public Service
Rodrigo Salazar meets the eclectic Brooklyn-based DJ, producer, instrumentalist and apostle of the dance floor.
Musical Paradise: Beppe Loda in Chicago
You can't write a credible history of dance music without speaking to Beppe Loda. Tommaso Conforti interviews the Italian DJ legend.
Gehno Aviance aka One A: Behind The Beat
Producer and DJ One A takes us from the rave to the runway in a career spanning three decades.
Underreported 2023: The Last Pirates
File sharing sites are turning out the lights but The Pirate Bay is celebrating their 20th anniversary of pissing off the music industry.
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