How to Become a SoundCloud Superstar, One Fake Fan at a Time
Fake views, fake plays, fake fans, fake followers and fake friends - the mainstream music industry has long been about "buzz" over achievement, fame over success, the mere appearance of being everyone's favorite artist...
E-Smoove, On How One Makes 400+ Remixes
5 Magazine meets with Chicago producer and Grammy nominated remixer E-Smoove, aka Eric Miller, and talk about his 400 credited remixes and multiple #1 hits, working at Steve Hurley's ID production house, "Freedom Train"...
Mike Huckaby: The 5 Magazine Interview
Lights burn out; hype fades away & becomes subject to ridicule; bottle rockets roar and then pop.
But if you're looking for a guide to charting your way through the underground, Mike Huckaby wrote the...
Ludus Pinsky: Musician, Producer, Maker of Synthesizers
For 5 Magazine's new column focusing on machines and the men and women who love them, we talk to The Analog Session's Ludus Pinsky - "musician, producer, maker of synthesizers". The synth-driven, largely improvisational...
Interview: Walker and Royce’s Chicago Debut at Primary
There's a burgeoning movement coming out of Brooklyn made up of uber talented Deep House and Disco cats and they're making serious waves. Sam Walker and Gavin Royce, aka Walker & Royce and part...
There Are Dreams and There Is Escape: The Legend of James Jack Rabbit Martin
If there is a Robert Johnson of Chicago House Music, it's James "Jack Rabbit" Martin.
No one has ever claimed that Martin walked down to a crossroads and had his 303 caressed by the Devil's...
Davos T. Funk: The Man Behind The Video Sensation
Yes, you can be famous in less than 24 hours, and we'll show you how! In one day a YouTube video of a piano-playing, Santa hat-clad man went from 0 to 40,000 hits. By...
Mystic Bill: The Revival
In the early 1990s, Mystic Bill was one of the key figures in the emergence of the Chicago Rave Scene, introducing Chicago's homegrown House Music sound to a new generation. Now in his homebase...
Deejay Deeon: The 5 Magazine Interview
Deeon is a pioneer in Chicago music, period. Often revered as the Ghetto House originator, he is an influence to electronic music producers of all genres. He's licensed songs to compilations from DJs that...
Jamie 3:26: The 5 Magazine Interview
Maybe the hardest working DJ in the scene, Jamie 3:26 is one of Chicago's true House Music soldiers. And thanks to the success of his original recordings, edits, remixes and a spinning style known...
Deep and Disco (and a little bit of pop): JKriv of Deep and Disco
We go around but one time on this globe, and Jason Kriveloff, alias JKriv, appears to be one of those carpe diem types. As the bassist for Tortured Soul, JKriv brought dance music into...
Robert Hood: The Faith and the Fury
We almost lost Detroit. It's the title of a song, one of Gil Scott-Heron's best, but that phrase often comes to mind when I read another accidental obituary for the Motor City.
Detroit's decline is...
Todd Edwards: The 5 Magazine Interview
You know a Todd Edwards song when you hear it. And his contributions to the UK Garage scene from the early '90s onwards continues to impress.
Finding God on the Dancefloor: The Christian Rave Scene with God’s DJs
While road tripping to Iowa with Detroit phenom Terrence Parker, we were regaling each other with stories of recent parties we'd attended. When he told me he had spun at a Christian rave during...
The Brand New Heavies: The 5 Magazine Interview
5 Magazine's Czarina Mirani sits down for an interview with The Brand New Heavies founder Jan Kincaid
Norm Talley: The 5 Magazine Interview
5 Magazine's October 2012 issue story with Detroit Deep House DJ and producer Norm Talley
Luke Solomon: Classics, Freaks and The Little Creatures
5 Magazine's September 2012 cover story with Luke Solomon, co-founder of Classic Music Company, Freaks, Music for Freaks and his new label Little Creatures.
J Paul Getto Interview
In a sea of so-so edits, endless swing and disco samples and prosaic hip-hop loops, a lot of us have been getting jaded with the Jacking House genre. But when Tony Saputo and Maurice...
Hugo Ball: Justin Long on the Hugo Ball Manifesto
The debut of the monthly residency HUGO BALL at SmartBar in Chicago.
DJ Spun: The Man From Rong
Everyone has the same story about Spun, of the one record released or played by Spun that triggered a red-eyed love affair with House Music's most eclectic DJ & dance music's most unconditionally lovable label.
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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.
