5 Magazine
House Music magazine publishing for more than 12 years from Chicago, covering Deep House, Soulful House, Techno, Synth, Disco and every flavor of underground electronic music.
WHEN YOU LIVE IN a city as musically blessed as Chicago, it's always hard to know how prominent your local heroes are on the national stage. So it wasn't until I started talking with producers and DJs from out...
THE NAME ALAN KING is synonymous with the early history of Chicago House music. He was there at the beginning, and if this thing ever ends you can be sure that he'll be there to play the afterhours, too....
THE MINUTE YOU STEPPED into Green Dolphin Street, Mr. A.L.I. hit you between the eyes, in the heart, in the hips and in the soul. Keyboard riffs, drums, a strumming baseline and the unmistakable voice of Dajae washed over...
5 Magazine's Czarina Mirani talks to Chicago House Music DJ and producer Ron Carroll.
He is a singer, a songwriter, a recording artist, record producer, an independent dance music mogul and one of the hottest dance music remixers to emanate out of Chicago. Georgie Porgie, greatly influenced during the infancy of House music,...
Interview by Doug Brandt.
YOU KNOW WHO SHE IS, although you may not realize it. She's had three #1s and two #2s on the Billboard dance charts over the last nine years, and at least five others in the Top...
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