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Deep in the underground with... Jamie 3:26

Deep in the underground with… Jamie 3:26

Listening to his track from the 5 Mag 20th anniversary record for the first time...
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With Love: 5 Mag celebrates 20 years with our first vinyl release

5 Mag celebrates 20 years with 3 foundational Chicago house music producers on our first vinyl release. Listen to the test pressing with us.
Astropolis announces night program for 2025 festival

Astropolis announces night program for 2025 festival

KiNK, Marcel Dettman, Busy P, Hyperlison, Daria Kolosova, Manchester's Interplanetary Criminal, Palms Trax and Bubble Love headline the 2025 "night program" for Astropolis, France's longest running electronic music festival.
5 Mag hosts panel on The Art of the Comeback and Staying Power in Dance Music at the Chicago Electronic Music Conference

5 Mag hosts panel on The Art of the Comeback and Staying Power in Dance Music...

The discussion featuring Czarina Mirani, Joe Shanahan, Mike Dunn and Lady D takes place April 26 2025 at Ramova Theater.
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PBS is airing a new documentary on the history of Funk

The new film from acclaimed documentarian Stanley Nelson is a voyage through the history of funk music, with an emphasis on soul, Afrofuturism and the music's origins in the Midwest.
The End of Piracy the pirate bay turns 20

Pirate Bay financier & right-wing sugar daddy Carl Lundström dies in plane crash

Lundstrom served jail time for his role in The Pirate Bay, not for financing three generations of insane Swedish politics.
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Chicago’s We Love Soul celebrates 15 years this weekend

The Chicago community of soul lovers marks their 15th anniversary this Sunday April 6 2025 at The Promontory with Sean Alvarez, Duane Powell, Joe Kollege and Jay Illa.
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Tribute to DJ Funk: The Celebration coming to Chicago this Sunday

A cast of friends and family come together to honor the life of one of Chicago's dance music pioneers on Sunday April 6 2025 at the Park West.
Photo by Patrick L. Pyszka, Samuel Sotelo-Avila, City of Chicago

Chicago House Music Festival & Conference Announce 2025 Dates

Save the Date: the Chicago House Music Festival and Chicago House Music Conference are coming in August 2025.
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Dam Swindle announce new album “Open”

Amsterdam deep house duo Dam Swindle have announced the forthcoming release of OPEN, Swindle's first album since 2018's High Life. Listen to the first single, "Girl," featuring vocalist Faye Meana.
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Woman shot and killed at suburban Chicago nightclub

Police and eyewitness accounts say 21 year old Zulma Daniela Calderon Pacheco was struck by a bullet fired during a fight involving club security.
The Icon: Remembering DJ Funk

The Icon: Remembering DJ Funk

Nobody captured the energy and fun of house music better than DJ Funk.
Flyer for Madison Wisconsin free festival Musique Electronique

Madison’s Musique Électronique festival returns in July 2025 with Todd Terry, Mark Broom, Octave One, DJ...

Started 15 years ago, the multi-day festival on July 11 through July 13 2025 remains free for everyone with world-class talent and a legendary afterparty scene.
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Family raising funds for critically ill Chicago icon DJ Funk

DJ Funk, one of the pioneers of ghetto house music and a dance music icon, has been "bravely battling stage 4 cancer" but now "doesn't have much longer left," in an appeal released by his family. Funk is now "facing the heartbreaking reality of planning for his final farewell."
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Jeff Mills added as Movement 2025 Day 1 headliner

"To be able to play in Detroit is and has always been a special kind of magic..."
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SoundCloud is the latest platform to hand over ticketing to Ticketmaster

SoundCloud invites their artists to make a ticketing giant even bigger with a new partnership.

Viva Acid celebrates 30 years of legendary Ghetto House with the legends of Dance Mania

The all-star event is April 12 2025 at Avondale Music Hall featuring Gant-Man, Lil'Tal, DJ Milton, Nehpets, Slugo, Eric Martin, Jana Rush, Traxman and more.
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Legendary vocalist Roberta Flack has died

Musician, activist, educator and Grammy-award winning R&B and soul vocalist Roberta Flack has passed away at the age of 88. The legendary soul singer whose career spanned more than half a century had been diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's Disease two years ago.
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Ministry revives their early synth pop sound with The Squirrely Years Revisited

The album collects tracks from Ministry's early albums With Sympathy and Twitch.
Detroit's Movement Festival releases full 2025 lineup

Detroit’s Movement Festival releases full 2025 lineup

Over 100 acts and some of the greatest house, techno and electronic music artists in the world gather together at Hart Plaza in Detroit this Memorial Day weekend.

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Visions: Inside the New Issue of 5 Mag

Chicago house music visionary Hieroglyphic Being, plus cover mix and interview with Galen, Z.I.P.P.O., a new label called FLURB, the breaking of Live Nation and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag, out now.