Do you use Rekordbox or CDJs? We do too, and we just found out our data can be read by anyone thanks to a security hole in Pioneer's DJ PRO LINK software. This news dropped late Friday night and seems to have only been posted on their websites: 5mag.net/news/pioneer...

Pioneer DJ Warns of Major Security Threat to Rekordbox & Every CDJ

Action Required: Rekordbox, CDJs and many other other Pioneer DJ products have a severe security flaw that could give an attacker access to your laptop.

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See also MAGA GOP and lots of European far right parties - also grifting financial criminals

Matt Anniss@sellbydave.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It is a touch depressing that the scale of Reform’s obvious corruption will be shrugged off by many as “they’re all the same”. Yes, corruption can be found across the spectrum, but at nowhere near the level of Reform. It’s a financial crime syndicate cosplaying as a political party

Heads up Chicago fam: UK Garage legend, producer + DJ Jeremy Sylvester is making one more appearance at Masada tonight with Czboogie + Karl Almaria. Free entry 👏

The Ultimate Synth 🎹 Magnolia is a West Coast analog FM synth which evokes the era of Bob Moog, Dave Smith and other towering founder/engineers who built companies for creating instruments that they themselves wanted to use.

New Music Alert 💢 Ellen Allien announces "New Life" in which the Berlin #techno legend takes on "personal autonomy, community responsibility, and the destructive forces threatening our planet’s beauty" 5mag.us/newlife

Ellen Allien announces New Life album

Listen to the first single from the Berlin techno legend: "Steh Auf" is out now.

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Madison WI festival MUSIQUE ÉLECTRONIQUE returns this July with a 3 days + 2 nites of music, featuring a pitch perfect blend of international, midwest and local talent ✨👌

We are huge fans of Jeremy + Urban Dubz so this is pretty amazing news! UK Garage legend Jeremy Sylvester ✨ embarks on a whirlwind US tour this week, hitting 5 cities in 8 days

This Chicago house track just made history. Here's the story of how it was made. 👇 5mag.us/yourlove

Library of Congress adds Jamie Principle & Frankie Knuckles'

The classic of classic Chicago house tracks was selected for preservation as one of

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New weapons for the weekend 😅✨ House music legend Eddie Amador + Di Saronno team up for OUR MISSION, a banging cut of mad horns and peak hour out-of-control house music aimed squarely at the dance floor for SoSure Music ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Story we're following: Chicago's Berlin nightclub reopens this month as a combined cocktail bar + late night dance club 5mag.net/news/berlin-...

Chicago's Berlin Nightclub will reopen this month as Decibel & The Belmont

The combined cocktail bar and dance club is opening up the Belmont Avenue space of the legendary Chicago LGBTQ+ institution on April 25.

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SHARING this gorgeous deep house gem from LOVEBIRDS, marking their first EP on Winding Road since 2011's classic "Want You In My Soul" 💎✨

16 years ago he passed. Remembering Frankie Knuckles today and why we do this ❤️

DJ Dan — a massively influential DJ, promoter and co-founding member of San Francisco's pioneering Funky Tekno Tribe — has passed away. 5mag.us/djdan

Put That Record Back On: Remembering DJ Dan - 5 Magazine

An icon of North American DJ culture and catalyst of the '90s rave explosion in the Bay Area and the United States, DJ Dan has passed away.

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Dropping acid with PBR Streetgang 🤯 Darker Shades is a bangin' 4 track of acid-heavy grooves. Tom and Bonar of PBR Streetgang tell us how they made it. Turn this up 🤘😵‍💫 5mag.net/.../pbr-stre...

A new night called SOUL COHESION is bubbling up next Saturday night Soul Cohesion features Chicago house legend Mike Dunn with 5 Mag's Czboogie and founders Twan b2b Adorio at the California Clipper. More: 5mag.net/calendar/chi...

CLUB LAND: Roy Davis Jr reissues classic EP from the late, great Paul Johnson 5mag.net/tracks/new-c...

📌 5 Mag Cover Story: Ardalan burst onto the scene like a holy comet in 2010 with “Mr. Spock.” Made in a garage when he was 19, Ardalan’s debut release on Dirtybird — his first release ever — became a smash at parties and in clubs he was too young to (legally!) enter 5mag.us/ardalan

Ardalan: 2010 — Today / 5 Mag Cover Story

Producer & DJ Ardalan burst onto the scene like a holy comet in 2010 with the release of Mr. Spock. 16 years later, we talk about production techniques, his upbringing in Iran and dealing with that ki...

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NEW: Chicago Electronic Music Conference announces the 2026 return and expansion of the CEMC, touching down on April 11 at Ramova Theatre

Music to stomp your feet and blow up your heart: Damian Rausch drops another #deephouse incendiary device on "What's Your Name?" 5mag.net/tracks/new-r...

Damian Rausch drops another bomb on "What's Your Name?"

Music to stomp your feet and blow up your heart. Deep house like you love it from Damian Rausch on What's Your Name? from his own Rausch Recordings.

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CEO: Spotify is now the "R&D department of the music industry" ☠️ The platform has influenced how tracks are written, arranged and exploited for commercial profit & is signaling their intention to inject AI into everything, to help listeners better "interact with content" 5mag.net/news/spotify...

Spotify CEO: We are now the R&D Department of the music industry

AI is going to benefit everyone, rich man tells his increasingly impoverished suppliers and customers.

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Next month US subscribers will be getting this email telling them Spotify is raising monthly subscription rates again to "keep delivering a great experience" 😂💰

Come early, come often: @smartbarchicago.com and @metrochicago.com are selling a multi-day pass to this weekend's blockbuster lineup of events 5mag.net/news/smartba...

New: @bandcamp.com just banned AI generated music from their platform Users are encouraged to flag music they suspect was generated via AI or relies heavily upon it for review: 5mag.net/news/bandcam...

Bandcamp bans AI generated music

Bandcamp users are encouraged to flag any music which appears to be AI generated.

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STOP and put this on! 120 minute house music workout from Detroit's DJ Cent in this week's 5 Mag RISE ☀️ mix soundcloud.com/5magazine/dj...

Chicago house music legend Farley Jackmaster Funk recorded a new #ChicagoBears anthem called "We Are Da Bears" 👀 5mag.net/news/farley-... www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZWP...

'We Are Da Bears!': Chicago DJ Farley 'Jackmaster' Funk makes new anthem for Monsters of the Midway

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Gluesticks & Glowsticks = electronic bliss This is an amazing artifact of the early 1990s rave scene. A new book TRiP MAGAZEEN 1992-1994 reproduces every issue of a seminal Florida electronic music + rave zine and dives deep into an overlooked piece of dance music history.

NEW: SoundCloud discloses site hack, member data theft and DOS attacks over the weekend:

Get happy 😀 cue'ing up a proper Chicago deep house set from the city's own DJ + producer TWAN for this week's 5 Mag RISE ☀️ mix

5 MAG PREMIERE: @richardearnshaw launches a new label ARTWORX with "Better For Me" — an irresistible soulful house jam featuring @SabrinaChyld 💎