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Amp Fiddler, a giant among giants, has died
By every measure one of the greatest of the many great artists birthed by Detroit, singer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Amp Fiddler has passed away.
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
Prince: The Immersive Experience to debut in Chicago
Tickets go on sale this Thursday March 31 for the interactive trip through the music and life of Prince opening in June 2022, which allows visitors to walk inside the album cover for Purple Rain, mixdown "Let's Go Crazy" and more.
Prince Estate to reissue 12 classic albums in February
Controversy, Dirty Mind, 1999, Lovesexy are among the reissued on vinyl from Sony Legacy and the Prince Estate.
Vinyl Isn’t Dead: A Record-Setting Record Store Day
Streaming be damned: we just had the third-largest sales week for vinyl albums since Neilsen's SoundScan launched in 1991.
Prince’s “Unfinished Memoir” To Go on Sale
The anniversary of Prince's death passed with news of another "unfinished" product from the Prince Estate.
Timmy Regisford & Joe Claussell Take On Donny Hathaway
These unofficial edits of "I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know" are without peer.
Magic Box: A History of the MPC
A fresh perspective on Roger Linn's masterpiece of engineering and the most important new music machine since the invention of the drum machine: the MPC.
Rediscovering Trees, the Best ’80s Synth Band You Never Heard Of
Dane Conover was San Diego's answer to Prince. Working nearly alone and playing everything himself his album Sleep Convention as "Trees" is a synthpop masterpiece.
Prince: (Sticky Like Glue) The House Is Ours
Timmy Regisford and Joe Claussell's "very special unofficial edits, overdubs & unreleased remixed promo 12 inch" of Prince.
The Music Is Always Bigger Than All Of Us: Inside The New Issue of 5 Mag
We're talking about Jimpster, Lester Fitzpatrick, Pool Boy and Chip E. - inside a HUGE new issue of 5 Mag, out now!
Jamie Lewis Scores Grammy Nomination for Prince’s Last Album
The soulful House Music boss from Purple Music is nominated in an unusual category.
Prince: To Have Loved and Lost…
I'm sure that you've now had your fill of rare concert footage, interviews, tributes and articles telling you which Prince tracks you should listen...
Prince: Music Was The Key
"Music Is The Key" was a bully of a track, demanding so much attention that it starved others of oxygen and became one of...
Prince: Stealing Purple Rain
I WAS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, which is a pretty young age for a thief or for a Prince fan. I don't know what prompted...
Prince: Dance 4 Life
You try to be tactful, you don't want to hurt anybody but in the moments after a tremendous tragedy or world-changing event, you sort...
The Beautiful One
Special Double Issue of 5 Magazine! Issue #131 of 5 Magazine is now available. 5 Magazine is published twice per month in our member's...
Pandemonium! HUGE Chosen Few Picnic Announcements
House Music's souled-up Woodstock just got a little more intense. The Chosen Few Picnic has announced their official line-up and performers for this year's...
Purple Rain This Weekend at The Vic in Chicago
It's happening around the country and now "purple fever" is coming to Chicago too.
The famed Brew and View at The Vic Theatre (3145...
Goodnight, Sweet Prince.
Update: Prince's publicist informs the Associated Press that Prince Rogers Nelson died today at the age of 57.
CNN confirms:
Prince Rogers Nelson, the...
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Beloved: Inside the new 5 Mag
An oral history of Freerange Records with Jimpster, Tom Roberts, Matt Masters, Pezzner, Manuel Tur and Fred Everything, plus Chicago house with Black Sjuan, DJ Paulette's welcome to the club, Elbert Phillips on Tears, Dark Heaven and more inside the new issue of 5 Mag, out now.
