Byron Stingily Interview
It was Halloween night of 2010 when I had my first Ten City experience. An 11-piece band walks up onstage at the elegant Alhambra Palace and takes their places. Lead singer Byron Stingily (discogs)...
Chez Damier: A Revolutionary Life
Most interviews with Chez Damier are about the past - about Prescription and Balance Records; about The Music Institute in Detroit; about KMS and the Belleville Three and Chez's role, seemingly everywhere that electronic...
Timmy Regisford: Up Close and Personal
Few people in our world can be unilaterally identified by one name. Few people are known simply by a moniker... especially when that moniker has such a lofty status: The Maestro. That rare...
Hieroglyphic Being: Music is Mathematics
A sound artist, an experimental composer, a music-making savant with analog machines - this is Jamal Moss, aka Hieroglyphic Being, the next in a lineage of Chicago's electronic producers driven by a vision to...
The Mariella Show
Get in line: there's a small wait but good seats are still available for The Mariella Show (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Reverbnation). Four months ago, after listening to the New York City-based vocalist's single "Lovesick",...
Kelly Sylvia Interview
It seems that everywhere I look these days I see something that has to do with female DJs or female producers in the electronic music industry. Females in the music industry have always been...
Kenny Bobien, Interviewed by RaShaan Houston
RaShaan Houston interviews fellow vocalist and the most inspiring man in House Music.
A Chat With Wattie Green …
This Wednesday, July 13, 2011 Wattie Green will be in town as Frankie J's Flapjack Records joins Gramaphone's monthly residency at SmartBar. Wattie's a relative newcomer on the Jackin' House scene - you see...
Tevo Howard: The 5 Magazine Interview
5 Magazine's interview with Tevo Howard: the true hero of the underground.
City Beat: The New World of Ron Trent
Ron Trent has surveyed the House Music landscape in our town & beyond. He hasn't liked what he's seen.
DJN Project: The 5 Magazine Interview
The DJN Project - comprised of Ruben "Swift" Vidal & Ricardo "Rick Galactik" Wilkinson - is a duo based out of NYC & Atlanta - and their body of work is overwhelming. I'm amazed...
Hector Moralez: The 5 Magazine Interview
Known as a solo artist, for his Fries & Bridges collaboration with Phil Weeks and as the impresario behind Minority Music & The Factory, Hector Moralez (facebook, soundcloud, discogs) is that rare producer whose...
David Harness: The 5 Magazine Interview
David Harness is quintessential San Francisco, and a testament to a city that lives and breathes deep, soulful House Music.
John Morales: “Today when I work on a track in my studio, I’m alone”
The difference between making music in the 1970s vs now is that today the creator is usually alone. Nowadays the great studios are vacant, hollow rooms that echo with the sounds and memories of the great music they once created.
Dubbyman: The Spanish Deep Explorer Touches Down in Chicago
Jose Manuel Alvarez - also known as Dubbyman - is gracing Chicago's sonic territories this week with gigs at SmartBar and this Saturday at Darkroom
Phil Weeks: So… Who Is Rob Soul?
No label has a better grasp on surviving and thriving in the digital age than Robsoul. Many contradictions, so many questions, starting with...
Dave Pezzner: The 5 Magazine Interview
Tagged as a newcomer the electronic dance community, Seattle's Dave Pezzner proves to be everything but "green" to the dance scene.
New Documentary Trailer: Back In The House
A long trailer from a new documentary has surfaced on youtube, featuring classic scenes of New York City nightlife circa the mid 1990s, including Body and Soul, the Tunnel and more
Swirl People’s Raoul Belmans and The Porcelain Anniversary
From Belgium, Raoul Belmans of Swirl People (facebook, twitter, soundcloud) has cut more than 70 EPs under a variety of crazy aliases, including Cosy Creatures, Dandruff Truckers, Different Noodles and his disco alter ego,...
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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.
