Music Festivals

Heads up for our Chicago fam: UK Garage legend Jeremy Sylvester is playing one more set in Chicago, Wednesday night at Masada Source

5 Mag founder Czboogie’s set at the Waacking and Vogueing party called EMBODY at Smartbar on December 11 2025. Source

Forever Mine, a new music festival, brings together R&B headliners and Chicago house music DJs for a two day festival in Chicago’s Union Park. Source

Al Smith hails from Ireland and these late nite tracks on Sounds and Shapes, on vinyl from Chateau Chepere, are made for the vanishing corners of the 24/7 afterhours world. Source

Insomniac presents five stages over five nights at Factory Town starting March 25 2026. Source

Some 115 artists will be DJing or performing at the Memorial Day weekend festival, taking place May 23 through May 25 2026 in Detroit. Source

Rekids’ generational run of great house music albums continues with Contemporary, the new collection of dancefloor-friendly deep house tracks from Oliver Dollar. Source

Once lost, now found: the soulful side of Paul Johnson in full color in this restored mix Paul recorded exclusively for 5 Magazine in 2010. Source

After a month-long hiatus, the Chicago Reader is returning to print in February as a reformatted monthly publication. Source

North Coast Music Festival returns for its 16th year from September 4 through September 6 2026. Source