Tag: chicago house music

"Root Frequencies" opens with a filtered and processed sound that sounds like a phone ringing when you place the call - a signal of...

Well okay, Hakim: the Chicago producer (and former contributor to this space) Hakim Murphy has been travelling the world this year, both solo and...

Chicago's Sadie Woods (White Label/WNUR) mixes Volume 187 of New Mix Monday, 5 Magazine's weekly House Music guest mix series. Sadie Woods is an independent...

A new mix from Grammy Award winner and Chicago House Music legend Maurice Joshua kicks off 5 Magazine's 100th Issue Celebration.   All this month we're...

Noleian Reusse (Black Tekno, Africans with Mainframes) mixes Volume 185 of New Mix Monday, 5 Magazine's weekly House Music guest mix series. Listen to Noleian...

'It's definitely not a throwback record,' Colette says of When the Music's Loud, the long-awaited album released in late August on her Candy Talk...

This past summer has been a fantastic one for Chicago's fans of House music. Between all the festivals (Wavefront, Spring Awakening, House of Sol,...

An exclusive mix from Chicago House Music legend Johnny Fiasco marks Volume 184 of New Mix Monday, 5 Magazine's weekly House Music guest mix...

Some of the best Chicago House Music of the '90s was released on what have essentially become "ghost labels", existing in some limbo between...

In which we get to know Garrett David, resident DJ at Queen! every Sunday at SmartBar. The twenty-two year old wunderkind has just released...

There's been a serious buzz around this record for months now, most notably because it marks Mark Farina and Great Lakes Audio's return to...

Photo by Ken Paul SmartBar is celebrating their 30th anniversary this year, and despite the scrapbook documentaries and other forms of Chicago mythology, the club...

Three original tracks of absolutely perfect Deep House from Chicago Skyway, with a remix from Altered Moods' Malcolm Moore rounding out a stellar release....

Gaga never did this. Madonna looks sad even trying, orbiting around hashtag-EDM pretty boys and trying to stoke tired controversies to recapture her heat....

"We were struggling so hard to make something we thought sounded good," DJ Pierre says today of the early days of Phuture. "That struggle...

Tim Zawada's popular edit series makes it's debut on vinyl with an eclectic selection of R&B, boogie and pop from the previous 30 years....

In the movie A Pure Formality, the reclusive writer Onoff dismisses interviews as an exercise in which "a man asks questions he already knows...

Split EPs are an endangered species - a victim of The Great Unbundling that began with dubplates, test presses and short runs and devoured...

I've had nothing but good things to say about this label and everyone involved in it. This is more of the same. In an...

In an expanded edition of Man & Machine, we talk to James Curd of Greenskeepers fame. Formerly of Chicago, James takes us into his...