Interview: Monty Luke on Nightdubbing
Monty Luke has made a specialty of blowing up our stereo and he did it again with the full length Nightdubbing album, out now from Radio Slave's Rekids imprint
Rude Code: How a horrible concert launched the digital music revolution
When an underwhelming piano recital in 1956 lead two engineers to joke that "even a computer" could do better than this.
5 Mag Book Club: The Crazy Days of Acid House
"Like a 1989 UK illegal rave in book form": Harold Heath looks back on Jane Bussman's Once In A Lifetime, one of dance music's finest books.
Introducing the 5 Mag Book Club
We're building a guide to books about house music and electronic music history, culture and analysis, curated by 5 Mag's staff.
Electro Records, Samplers and Lots of Cocaine
The Supreme Court weighs in on the fate of a 1984 breakdancing jam with a wild backstory.
New conference spotlights Latinos in Chicago House Music
Latinos In Da House recognizes the DJs, artists, dance crews and personalities that shaped Chicago house from the start.
5 Mag meets Nick V & La Mona Paris
There's something to be said for a party that is still going strong after seventeen years. That party is La Mona, a gathering in Paris paying tribute not only to house music but also its passion for the art of dance.
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.
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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.
