5 Magazine

CTL-E-0597 · Publication · other · 2005

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

5 Magazine began appearing around July/August 2005 as a free monthly Chicago publication devoted to house music.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MUSIC-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MUSIC-001:music-001-node-040; source research type(s): publication. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass.

Sources

https://ra.co/news/31536
https://5mag.net/news/with-love-5-mag-vinyl-compilation-chicago-house-music/ (primary source)

Record CTL-E-0597 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: PROVISIONAL · 2 sources (1 primary) · CTL research: MUSIC-001.
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