How I Play: Jenifa Mayanja on the Culture 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...
Listening Room: thatmanmonkz on Burnin’ Up (Shadeleaf Music)
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...
In the Studio with Tyree Cooper
Every month 5 Magazine's Man+Machine features talks about musical machines and the men & women who love them.
This month we talk to one of the forefathers of the late '80s Hip House movement, Tyree...
Maurice Joshua: Exclusive Mix for 5 Magazine’s 100th Issue Celebration
A new mix from Grammy Award winner and Chicago House Music legend Maurice Joshua kicks off 5 Magazine's 100th Issue Celebration.
All this month we're doing some exclusive stuff for 5 Magazine's 100th Issue celebration.
Today...
Pezzner and The Last Night In Utopia
It's impossible to trivialize the impact of The Tracks Are Alive, Dave Pezzner's 2010 album on Freerange Records. A key catalyst in pushing Deep House back to the top of the underground music scene,...
Golf Clap: Hugh and Bryan’s Excellent Adventure
There is nothing more refreshing than change and people that aren't afraid to embrace it. Detroit's Hugh Cleal and Bryan Jones came together to form Golf Clap, a cheeky, satirical image complete with costumes...
Hawaii’s Biggest Afterhours Hits Chicago: DJ Russoul and Asylum
While you get guest DJs to come play at your club, it's not often you get a well known party to come and represent its entire philosophy. Chicago is in for a treat with...
Alex Agore: The 5 Magazine Interview
Alex Agore is somewhat of an enigma. I was first turned on to him when Managing Editor Terry Matthew sent me a review of Alex's Mizz Honey EP out on MK and Scottie Deep's...
In the Studio with Victor Simonelli
Every month 5 Magazine's Man+Machine features talks about musical machines and the men & women who love them.
This month, ahead of his date headlining 5 Magazine's Eight Year Anniversary Party, we talked about the...
Colette: When The Music’s Loud
'It's definitely not a throwback record,' Colette says of When the Music's Loud, the long-awaited album released in late August on her Candy Talk label. This much is clear: at a time when everyone...
Wired Fridays – Chicago’s Friday Lunchtime Series
This past summer has been a fantastic one for Chicago's fans of House music. Between all the festivals (Wavefront, Spring Awakening, House of Sol, Chosen Few, Silver Room Block Party, WestFest), Smirnoff's Lunch Break...
Love Train and the Lost History of a Chicago House Classic
Four thousand, five hundred and twenty eight miles from Chicago - in Milan, Italy, the town he grew up in and which he still lives in today - Roberto Corinaldesi found himself at a...
Detroit Swindle: The 5 Magazine Interview
When the term 'overnight success' is bandied about for an artist, there can often be raised eyebrows. But when it turns out that that there's a perfect fusion in the cosmos of talent and...
The Record Cutter: Todd Mariana
Every month 5 Magazine's Man+Machine features talks about musical machines and the men & women who love them.
This month, we're going in a little different direction.
Meet (if you don't already know him) Todd Mariana....
The Essential Sylvester Playlist
Dimitri from Paris, Kon, Theo Parrish and more make an appearance in the essential Sylvester playlist, compiled by DEL for his Foundations column.
Related: Foundations: Sylvester Fabuloso!
You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
('78; #1 Dance-Disco/#20 R&B...
Sylvester Fabuloso!
I recently did a lecture and DJ'd a party for Brian Cassidy's Cave Cast series where I discussed some of the foundations of philaDELphia music.
During the podcast, I mentioned the impact that AIDS had...
Interview: Brian Coxx
Ahead of our 8 year anniversary party this Friday, August 23 2013, we get to know Brian Coxx of New York City, talking punk rock, House dancing and the Soulgasm events in New York.
When...
Rick Wilhite: ‘There’s Too Much In Detroit For Me’
DETROIT - born and raised and residing in - that's the first and the second and the last thing you need to know about Rick Wilhite. The music says the rest, decades of accumulated...
Watch the Trailer for Wax Trax! The Documentary
http://vimeo.com/71354035
A new documentary from Chicago outfit Regressive Films will trace the history of the seminal Chicago record store, record label and aesthetic terrorist outfit Wax Trax!, the trailer of which was just posted up.
I've...
Justin Martin on Dirtybird and the San Francisco Scene
For the last few years the buzzword on everyone's lips has been nothing but Dirtybird - the parties, the DJs, the music. San Francisco's Claude Von Stroke and Justin Martin were the nucleus of...
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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.
