The artwork, ‘Under One Roof’, also honours the iconic house music label, Gherkin Records, which used to sit opposite the Chicago Public Library A new mural paying tribute to the late Frankie Knuckles was unveiled at the Uptown branch of the Chicago Public Library on Saturday September 28. The public artwork, titled Under One Roof, is also [...]
Saving classic house music DJ sets from oblivion, one compressed mp3 file at a time. SYNC is another new feature for 5 Mag, which you can probably describe it in as few words as possible as “a new mix series for old mixes.” There’s more to it than that, of course. A few years back [...]
Lost mix from the Chicago house icon Paul Johnson originally posted around Thanksgiving 2012. We’ve been searching for a proper way to post all this stuff from 5 Mag’s 18 19 years of history that slipped through the cracks. This series, SYNC, is our way to revisit that history in a respectful way and not just dump [...]
Bloomberg reports that investors are seeking to cash out of the company at a valuation of hundreds of millions of dollars. The ticketing company that acquired Boiler Room may be on the block, according to published reports. Lucas Shaw, writing for Bloomberg’s Screentime newsletter, reports that the London-based ticketing company DICE is in talks to [...]
Latinos In Da House recognizes the DJs, artists, dance crews and personalities that shaped Chicago house from the start. Add another landmark event to Chicago’s long summer celebrating the city’s house music legacy. Latinos In Da House presents its inaugural conference on Saturday, September 28 2024. The conference focuses specifically on the vital contributions played by [...]
The oracle that still answers to the human name “Brian Eno” has made a lot of good calls in his career, but none so prescient as his reaction when he first heard Giorgio Moroder and Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love.” “This is it!” he exclaimed to David Bowie. “Look no further!” They were in [...]
Karizma, Anané, Tony Touch, Ash Lauryn, Jana Rush, Johnny Fiasco, Andrew Emil, DJ Slugo, Lori Branch, Wayne Williams, Alan King, Carla Prather and more are among the incredible number of artists booked for the 2024 Chicago House Music Festival, marking its return to Millennium Park and the Jay Pritzker Paviliion this June 2, 2024 from [...]
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. Today marks 32 years since the passing of one of the greatest DJs in history. Ron Hardy died on this date, March 2, 1992. In honor of Ronnie — universally [...]
You can’t write a credible history of dance music without Beppe Loda. The Italian producer emerged in the early 1980s behind the decks as resident and main attraction at Club Typhoon, a former cinema transformed into a discotheque. His sets were so popular that the club reputedly attracted more patrons than the entire population [...]
Epic Games used, neglected and finally divested themselves of Bandcamp in barely more than a year... And it’s gone. In shocking news, Bandcamp has been sold to its third owner since February 2022. In a memo shared on its website on Thursday, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney announced significant job cuts at the company [...]