Tag: chicago house music

Four Play Sessions is a mix series from Chicago's Four Play Music and featuring the talents of Mr. Andrew Emil & Friends, published each...

We've just received the sad and shocking news that Andre Harris - long a mainstay of the Chicago House scene - passed away last...

I feel bad for this, for adding what's become Shaun J. Wright's epithet - "of Hercules & Love Affair" - every time I say...

Four Play Sessions is a mix series from Chicago's Four Play Music and featuring the talents of Mr. Andrew Emil & Friends, published each...

DJs today are confronted with an astonishing number of choices, from vinyl to digital media, controllers, mixers, and the unending stream of more music...

If my record collection is any guide, Giorgio Luceri isn't just going places - he's already arrived. In the wake of another EP on...

Vanguard Sound has been going since 2006; I believe we reviewed a one of or two of the early records from Amir Alexander's home...

Where do you begin the story of the man who began it all? The man who began it for you? Should I start at the...

Update #2 - This Entire Scene Was Frankie's Dance Floor: Frankie Knuckles, 1955-2014 ---- Update - Apologies to everyone. We published the below note at about...

There was a time not that long ago that JT Donaldson was a staple on the "circuit" - an informal group of about two...

If I had to nominate just one DJ to represent everything Chicago stands for as a city, a people and a musical sanctuary, that...

We stand today in praise of the Icon, Dance Mania star and Ghetto House legend DJ Funk. The man behind party anthems including "Knock Knock",...

You could hear this one coming all summer long - like a lumbering giant stalking the nation, I think everyone heard the footfalls. And...

This is like reading the back of a pack of Chinese firecrackers: light quickly and run away. Drop the needle anywhere, at any point...

Four Play Sessions is a mix series from Chicago's Four Play Music and featuring the talents of Mr. Andrew Emil & Friends, published each...

At a time when dance music is now outselling Hip-Hop, we can shamelessly go with the glass half full analogy and say that the...

Whatever part of this industry you're in, if you take this shit with the slightest degree of seriousness, you're a masochist. We fight and...

On Chicago native Spirit of the Black 808's new EP we are treated to the producer's penchant for a deep, moody and layered sound....

After decades around records, I still can't find anyone that can explain the voodoo of the vinyl re-issue market to me. It reminds me...

Sista Stroke mixes volume 190 of New Mix Monday, 5 Magazine's weekly guest mix series. Sista Stroke is family, and has been from the time...