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.
One of the most iconic labels in House Music is growing...
Balance - the venerable Deep House label run out of Chicago by Chez Damier - has begat "Inner Balance," a new sublabel in the capable hands of the young...
They don't give you a gold watch or a handsome trophy when you pass a certain threshold in House Music. If they did, Olivier Portal would own 'em all. Portal's catalog stretches back twenty years and he's never quite...
Nostalgia is an illness, or at least that's what doctors once believed.
Today, it's less a communicable virus than a kind of collective mania. In times of uncertainty, frustration and personal and economic dislocation, people seek safety in the...
Audio Soul Project and Fresh Meat are back and it feels good to say it. This is but the first of two superb records the Chicago label is releasing in the next 30 days or so and as much...
DJ Godfather from Detroit is in charge of A 5 Mag Mix, 5 Magazine's signature mix and interview series.
"I see a lot of guys doing the same exact thing they were 15 years ago," DJ Godfather tells 5 Magazine's...
STRAIGHT OUTTA SLIGO, Ireland, Brame & Hamo have dropped two EPs in 2015 and both of them have been stellar.
#001 for Splendor & Squalor (sometimes called Clockwerk for its A side track) was described in these pages as...
Updated January 19, 2017: We've written several in-depth studies of the various Soundcloud alternatives and are updating this piece with links to the new stories on a wide array of alternatives to SoundCloud as we publish them.
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When is it ever enough? Alex Agore has armed more DJs with more dope wax in the last few years than anyone. Show me the record collection of anyone making folding money as a DJ and you'll probably find...
Amidst all of the doom and gloom of the music industry - as a few dollars are replaced with a few dimes and now a few dimes by a few pennies, courtesy of streaming - it's inspirational as fuck...
If you've been frustrated while navigating SoundCloud's draconian takedown process, this news may surprise you. SoundCloud may begin making your upload a streaming advertisement rather than taking it down.
SoundCloud just announced a partnership with rights management outfit ZEFR which...
Two of Chicago’s finest are collaborating together on a new album from Sasha’s rejuvenated Last Night On Earth label.
PolyRhythmic is the title of the forthcoming LP from Chicago’s Kate Simko and Tevo Howard - and I bet you didn’t...
IT'S A GOOD DAY, TODAY AND EVERY DAY that one of the best electronic music labels America ever produced kicks up out of a slumber and gets back into the swing of things.
I'm talking about Metamorphic, the label most...
I'm an outlander, but I think you can probably trace a brief history of Italian alternative music through the 10 year career path of N.O.I.A. Starting out as punkish provocateurs prone to riling audiences to riot, by 1984 they...
Mr. Mendel takes over A 5 Mag Mix, 5 Magazine's signature mix and interview series.
"I know in Chicago it’s like cussing in the church," Mr. Mendel says, "but I sometimes tell beginning DJs that the blends are not the...
Following the tragic death of keyboard player Ethan White, Tortured Soul has announced that the band will continue touring and details of their forthcoming studio album have emerged from shop listings overseas.
Hot For Your Love Tonight is the title...
IT WAS BLACK THIS MORNING - cold, windy, overcast and a thick fog rolled off the lake. You have to give credit where it's due: it's the perfect ambiance for the other Frankie Knuckles Day. It's the one nobody...
BEFORE THERE WAS A PARTY or a record label or anything else, it was the music that got them together. There was Alinka - then of the electronic band Shuteye - and there was Shaun J. Wright - best...
Fresh off a debut at SXSW, the documentary on dance music's quintessential machine is set to debut in Chicago this April 17.
808 The Documentary, the film about the ubiquitous drum machine that powered House Music, synthpop, hip hop, New...
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It's on the high end of the spectrum, but that's how long a friend of 5 Mag's was told it would take to press his next record.
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Twenty-eight years after it began, the organizers behind the world's largest soulful music event have announced that they're packing it in.
With "heartfelt sadness," Alex and Dave said in a statement that it was time to "finally rest the great...
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