5 Magazine Issue #122 - Queen!

5 Magazine's Czarina Mirani goes behind the scenes of Queen!, the Sunday night residency at SmartBar, in Issue #122 of 5 Magazine, released September 2015 and available now.

In this Issue:

Czarina Mirani talks to Michael Serafini, Derrick Carter and SmartBar General Manager Lenny Lacson about Queen!, SmartBar's acclaimed Sunday night residency - already infamous and gathering worldwide attention after just three years.

A founding member of the Ghetto Teknitianz and the Teklife crew, Chicago's DJ Tre is among the DJs and producers at the forefront of the Juke & Footwork movement. He opens up about his early days, RUN DMC records and the raw Ghetto House sound of his productions in our 5 Mag profile.

Thomas Cox asks what it means to be educated in House Music - and gives you an idea of how one might answer that. A general guideline:

DEL's monthly Foundations column pays tribute to Walter Gibbons - the underappreciated genius who became the prototype for the modern DJ.

Averaging just one record a year since 1986, Rodney Bakerr's Rockin' House Records makes a fair claim for being considered one of Chicago's greatest House Music labels. Read more about Chicago legends lost & found in this month's Records of Notes column.

Plus photos, listings and more...