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Green Velvet: Bigger Than Prince (10 Year Anniversary Remixes)

Prince was still alive when Green Velvet released Bigger Than Prince, and that's just a little of what's changed in the last 10 years

DJ Lady D makes a festival-worthy Chicago house playlist

Chicago's DJ Lady D selects her top 19 Chicago house festival tracks ahead of ARC Music Festival, coming this Labor Day Weekend (September 1 through September 3 2023) at Union Park.

We Still Call It House: Inside the new 5 Mag

The story of 3°, Chicago's influential house music collective and their member's only parties, Detroit vocalist Diviniti, Gratts cover mix and profile, disco legend John Davis and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag out now.

Hyperloop’s Mentalizm Drops on Wax from Drumcode

Aggressive techno from Hyperloop (sometimes still known as Riva Starr) and Green Velvet aka Cajmere.

Jerome Baker: A Chicago Story

Once DJ Boris, sometimes Lord Damien, but he's best as just Jerome Baker. This is a Chicago Story of one of the city's best.

Robert Williams and Green Velvet to speak at the Chicago Humanities...

Founder of the legendary club The Warehouse Robert Williams, Green Velvet and 5 Magazine's Czarina Mirani speak on November 11 2016.

Spring Awakening Will Stop Crashing On Your Couch

Thirty eight days away, the 5th annual Spring Awakening Festival pops off in the city of Chicago courtesy of promoter React Presents and the...

Green Velvet & Claude VonStroke Are The Real Get Real

Rarely does an act get booked to play Movement before their debut release drops, but then most "acts" don't have 40 years of House...

Almighty Cajual and Relief Drop Two New EPs Today

The Houses That Curtis Jones Built have a couple of hot records out today, featuring Josh Butler on Cajual and Alberto Ruiz on Relief. Portable...

Say Hello to Pioneer’s Compact XDJ-700

Pioneer is dropping what the company calls the "most compact, portable and flexible digital player" for DJs yet. The XDJ-700 is a slimmed down...

D’Angelo, Chemical Brothers Headline North Coast Music Festival 2015

Just announced: several of the headliners for the 2015 edition of North Coast Music Festival, the three day event that traditionally marks the end...

Cajmere Drops 31 Track Compilation

Out today comes another bundle of sunshine from Cajual and Relief Records in Chicago - a massive 31 track compilation pitting the labels in...

Disclosure Just Announced They’re Playing Chicago – at Lincoln Park Zoo

The ticket page just went up and it looks like it's going to go off. Grammy-nominated (we can say that now) recording artists Disclosure will...

Video: Watch the FootworKINGZ in Green Velvet and Gant-Man’s Check U...

Against a backdrop of Chicago's skyline, lakefront, high school gyms and downtown sidewalks, the FootworKINGZ provide the visuals for "Check U Out", the neo-juke...

Wanna Make a Track with Green Velvet?

Green Velvet is doing a spin on the (at this point, tired) remix contest. According to an image posted up on his Instagram, the Chicago...

Love Train and the Lost History of a Chicago House Classic

Four thousand, five hundred and twenty eight miles from Chicago - in Milan, Italy, the town he grew up in and which he still...

Cajmere’s Funky Fresh for 5 – Volume Nine Mix

Exclusive: Cajmere is back in the mix! We're pleased to present the latest episode - Volume Nine - of Cajmere's Funky Fresh for 5,...

Cajmere’s Funky Fresh for 5 – Volume Eight

Exclusive: It's a gorgeous day in Chicago - 84 degrees, sunny, the kind of day you wait all year to enjoy - and here...

Cajmere’s Funky Fresh for 5 – Volume Seven

Exclusive: Time for Volume Seven (!) of Cajmere's Funky Fresh for 5, our reigning, most popular mix series appearing monthly in this space exclusively...

Cajmere’s Funky Fresh for 5 – Volume Six

Exclusive: This is Volume Six of Cajmere's Funky Fresh for 5, our most popular mix series appearing monthly in this space exclusively for 5chicago.com. Cajual...

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