The Twilite Tone: Four Play Music Sessions vol 12
Four Play Sessions is a mix series from Chicago's Four Play Music and featuring the talents of Mr. Andrew Emil & Friends, published each month exclusively for 5 Magazine.
Curated by Andrew Emil, this month's...
Adam Rios: Book One (Vega Records)
Some artists are very well known. Some are known well by those that KNOW music! This is the case with this tight EP on the well-known Vega Records label by a guy that music...
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...
Video Shoot for Terry Hunter’s Message Track We Are One Tomorrow
I think you can tell an issue's reached critical mass when Stephen Colbert uses it as a punchline. Which happened with the issue of Chicago violence this week. Colbert suggested that if America was...
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...
New Releases: Three of Our Favorite Detroiters Collaborate on Move
Oh snap: Several of our favorite people from Detroit are collaborating on "Move" - a Soulful House bomb and the 19th release from Detroit's WomenOnWax Records.
An original production from DJ Minx and maybe...
Josh Milan: The 5 Magazine Interview
When you talk about Blaze, you're talking about House Music royalty. The legendary duo released almost twenty full length albums, countless hit songs and remixes for Diana Ross, Aretha, Jamiroquai, and more...
But that's all...
Whatever Happened to Judy Cheeks?
Remember Judy Cheeks? The preacher's daughter and supremely underrated vocalist can make a fair claim to having been one the most versatile and enduring dance music vocalist of the last 30 years.
Example: Judy released...
Jellybean Benitez Relaunches His Jellybean Soul Label
With two new releases, our man Jellybean Benitez has rekindled Jellybean Soul, his soulful house label, with a bit of an international flair.
The label welcomes South African vocalist Bernadette Mutangara with "Give Me Your...
Watch Tortured Soul Streamed Live at The Shrine Tonight
The boys from Tortured Soul are back in town at The Shrine tonight. You knew that.
What you didn't know is that the show will be streamed live starting at 11:30pm Chicago time at...
Sean Haley: 5 Magazine’s New Mix Monday Sets #172
Sean Haley: Deep House DJ from Chicago. Need more? Okay: he's one half of Windimoto, a collaboration with Scorpeze founded in 2007, which released the full-length Sinister Beauty LP two years later and the...
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"...
Mark de Clive-Lowe’s Remix:Live Isn’t the Future But It Should Be
Live events. Not to put too fine a point on it, but they suck.
If you're already a fan, watching your favorite DJ/producer rip his gear out of the studio and transport it on stage...
Ralf Gum Prepping Release of New Album Never Leaves You
German-born and now South African-based producer Ralf Gum is preparing for the release of Never Leaves You, the follow-up to his breakthrough 2008 LP Uniting Music.
Like Uniting Music, Never Leaves You is packed with...
Joey Negro Announces New Sunburst Band Album
Joey Negro has announced the August release of The Secret Life of Us, the fourth Sunburst Band album on Z Records.
The album includes "In The Thick of It", which is currently in promo...
DJ Meme in Chicago (Video)
A short trip, but one it would seem that was worth remembering. DJ Meme himself made this short video of his whirlwind 24-hour-or-less trip to Chicago last Friday when Crimson Lounge and 5 Magazine...
Jamie Lewis Paints the Town Purple
Our man in Switzerland, Jamie Lewis, is celebrating the release of his new album Purpleized. In Purple Music fashion, the release contains one unmixed and DJ friendly CD along with a vinyl edition, and...
Interview: DJ Meme Ahead of His First Chicago Appearance
It's been a long time in our to-do list to get Brazilian Producer and DJ Meme over to Chicago, where dates just never seemed to come together. But finally through serendipity the constellations...
Remembering Darryl Pandy One Year Later
It was one year ago yesterday that we heard the news that Darryl Pandy passed away.
The question arises - and it's a terrible question indeed - of how you remember someone after they're gone....
Kate Simko and Jeffrey Weeter’s Live AV Experience
Welcome to the future, or one iteration of it.
Synesthesia is what they call the association between sight and sound and other sensations, and for most of us it's involuntary. But Chicago's Kate Simko and...
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Library of Congress adds Jamie Principle’s “Your Love” to National Recording Registry
The classic of classic Chicago house tracks was selected for preservation as one of "the defining sounds of history and culture." Here's how it was made.
