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.
The Beat. The Scene. The Sound.
Harold Heath on DJ Disciple's inside look at "the rise, the fall and rebirth of house music in New York City"
Every city should have their own Teri Bristol
In Chicago we were selfish: we kept her here for ourselves.
One Dollar.
Charging money for music submissions is a new growth industry. They're just not charging very much.
The Cover Story: Alinka
Kyiv, Chicago, Berlin: three cities that Alinka has called home, in a life that's been marked by an artistic journey and a physical one. With the rebirth of Twirl we talk to DJ and producer Alinka - one of the people we love, on the people and things that she loves.
Rudiments: Worldship Music and the return of the Teflon Dons
How Worldship Music became one of the best underground house music labels in America - more than 20 years after calling it quits.
The End of File Sharing?
Rising electricity prices and free streaming are doing what decades of lawsuits could not: shut down internet pirate sites.
There was a war on disco. Disco won.
A new documentary says the quiet part out loud: the disco backlash was a battle in the culture war against Black and queer Americans. But Disco won.
The Devil’s Disco: John Davis & the Monster Orchestra
The founder of disco's wildest orchestra, John Davis put in his time at Sigma Sound, with MFSB and his own Monster Orchestra. The once-prolific dance music artist passed away earlier this year in Ohio.
Why Epic Games bought Bandcamp
While posing as a defender of artists and the "creator economy," Bandcamp's former owner Epic Games paid the largest fine in history for manipulating users into unwanted purchases and violating rules intended to protect children.
Marco Lenzi: Molecular Studies
Molecular Recordings has always had an uncanny ability to identify and amplify up-and-coming techno artists very early in their career. After a decade on hiatus, label head Marco Lenzi returned without skipping a beat.
DJ Diz is hospitalized. Help support his recovery.
The Chicago DJ and producer is undergoing dialysis in the hospital and will need support after discharge for outpatient treatment.
Gratts – Behind The Beat
5 Mag meets Gratts, DJ behind Issue 208's cover mix. Belgian by birth, a resident of Berlin for 8 years and now living in South Australia, his productions over the last few years have truly shined, with a bright and eclectic approach to house music.
Chicago House DJ, pioneer & icon Teri Bristol has died
Teri Bristol, who held down residencies in Chicago for more than 30 years, including genuinely iconic nights at Medusa's and Crobar, passed away on September 25, 2023.
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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.
