Terry Matthew
Managing Editor of 5 Magazine, Terry Matthew's first record was "Circus Bells." His first mixtape was from Armando Gallop. Aside from writing for 5 Mag, Terry has authored the liner notes for Jeff Mills' "Metropolis Metropolis" and the 20th anniversary reissue of Hardkiss' "Delusions of Grandeur." He lives in Chicago. You can reach Terry by email.
Wake up, stay up and don't stay in: new mix from WYSER, aka Matt Wyser of Custom Vibes, the DJ duo REDUX and part of Shfft Chicago.
Re/discovery: Gorgeous bass-bouncy deep house and Jersey Garage from '90s Nice'N'Ripe affiliate Zest 4 Life.
"Tomorrow People" was acclaimed vocalist Gregory Porter's first record ever - and the original session was done in a single take.
Harold Washington Library is offering up over 9,000 unneeded or discarded vinyl LPs from their collection for sale this week only.
Dazzling new deep house tracks from Huerta, Nico Lahs, Jacksonville and 100Hz on the third installment of their deep house V/A series.
Two gorgeous remixes of Jennifer Vanilla's "Jennifer Pastoral" that grab you by the scruff and shake you about a bit to anoint you for a journey to heaven.
The acclaimed studio engineer drew thousands of artists to Pogo Studio in Champaign and taught many more the art of recording music.
Karizma, Anané, Tony Touch, Ash Lauryn, Jana Rush, Wayne Williams and more highlight this year's Chicago House Music Festival's powerhouse main event and series of events spread over 4 days from May 30 to June 2 2024 in Chicago's Millennium Park.
The CURE Act has picked up more than a dozen co-sponsors to legalize psilocybin for therapeutic use and expunge criminal records.
From Kherson, Ukraine comes one of the most extraordinarily bright and even outright sunny EPs hitting the racks this year.
Out of the blue, Lone dropped a track just as the year was winding down and "Triton" may make all of the bullshit of 2023 worth it.
5 Mag meets Black Eyes, the Mancunian producer whose label Lost Control 2097 is capturing a certain raw, sometimes psychedelic but viscerally rhythmic brand of techno and deep house.
Closer To Truth has a knack for tapping into a rich vein of young producers and giving them a spotlight and with output like this they rarely disappoint.
The $1.8 billion buy-out would include the company's artist services, record labels and popular distribution arm TuneCore.
Ravenomics: Jacked fees and chaos brought all of the record platform's faults to the surface.
A remarkable label debut for Marli, who has been producing for a few years but emerges with a nearly pitch-perfect release on Unknown To The Unknown.
Jacob Arnold interviews about the classic Chicago club the Music Box precede a Ron Hardy mix from 1984 from the archives of DJ M-Traxxx.
For people who know what the term "Midwest Techno" means and love what it sounds like, Decoder has that whole aesthetic on lock on XX 15 from Molecular Recordings.
This Sunday afternoon with Mel Hammond and DJ Tommy Starck whose The Penthouse EP will be available.
The sound of Fata Morgana I is stripped down, raw, playing out how you'd hear music in a live PA - which is how Vasco Ispirian perfected this style of producing techno.
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