“As much space as you need” now has a specific size. It’s about 15 terabytes. Dropbox has announced a change to its pricing plan. In the past, their “Advanced” plan promised unlimited storage. Now that storage is capped at 15 TB. By way of explanation, Dropbox claimed that a small number of subscribers [...]
Dark Entries prepares an album of jazz, gospel and blues on Sylvester's Private Recordings: August 1970 in honor of legendary disco vocalist's 76th birthday. Sylvester is best known for disco, but Sylvester had range. He had range within that range. Private Recordings: August 1970 features the legendary vocalist and icon singing nine songs, mostly standards from jazz, [...]
Daily lineups and set times have been revealed for this year’s Charivari — long a favorite of 5 Mag readers across the Midwest — held this August 11, 12 and 13th, 2023 in Detroit. Celebrating its 10th year, the Charivari festival spreads out over two stages and three days at Historic Fort Wayne (6325 W. Jefferson) in Detroit and features DJs including Delano Smith, Karizma, [...]
The history of Chicago’s 3 Degrees Global collective, representing a missing link in Chicago house music history as told by its members: Jeremiah Seraphine, Forever Monna, Julius The Mad Thinker, Dj-FLX, Priti Gandhi, BIGSEXY and Czboogie… The story of 3° is a story that is best told by its members. There were at one point [...]
The City of Chicago has announced the full line-up for the 2023 Chicago House Music Festival and Conference taking place on June 23 and June 24, 2023. The city previously announced that this year’s festival will be taking place on the Humboldt Park Boathouse lawn on June 24, 2023 from 11am to 9pm. The initial line-up [...]
Beyond Heaven is a series of books that serve as one of the best historical references to the early days of Chicago House Music that we have. Collecting flyers dating back as far as 1981, the books are stuffed with the names of DJ both prominent and obscure and forgotten, and venues that no [...]
Reggie Dokes is a producer, a DJ, a composer for films and a 100% pure Detroit electronic music artist. Though he’s released records on influential labels and played big shows in cities around the world, Reggie is at heart a seeker, a follower in the tradition of great Black diaspora seekers like Sun Ra. His [...]
Three generations of dance music DJs, producers & fans have been enlightened and inspired by the funky, souled’up testament of Victor Simonelli. A new collection focuses attention on his deeply influential early ’90s house tracks. It’s happened a million times, it’s happened every day for more than 30 years and it’s probably also happened [...]
Chicago’s Trax Records released some of the most influential records in house history, but decades later, many of the artists behind them are still waiting to be paid. Harold Heath investigates the long and complicated history of one of house music’s most infamous labels HAROLD HEATH Tuesday, March 7, 2023 The Trax Records saga [...]
https://youtu.be/Nqb3zRU931s As of December 1, "basic tier" accounts are limited to 10 public mixes. By Terry Matthew - DECEMBER 16, 2022 Mixcloud’s CEO has stated that the platform is “not currently profitable” and has announced a new limitation on “basic tier” members, capping mixes at just [...]