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.
I stared at this record for two weeks, three weeks, then a month. It can't be that good, can it? It can. It isn't this well-produced, is it? It is. People aren't already going crazy over this, are they?...
So many good things to say about this record, starting with the people on it. Brian Harden has a discography more solid than granite stone - among them, one of the best records ever made in Chicago, Inner Instincts...
There was a moment in the documentary Muhammad And Larry, captured with the usual calm and steady cam the Maysles Brothers were known for, in which heavyweight champion Larry Holmes is driving his car through the streets of Easton,...
Jeff Mills has had a hand in far more labels than Axis, Purpose Maker and the other imprints he has his name on. His was the invisible hand that guided Tresor and corrected its course when it infamously strayed...
As "Big Daddy Rick", Rick Wade already has some skin in the Ghetto Tech game. If the persistent rumors have any merit, he's also had an invisible hand in many other records that we don't know about. Golden Harvest...
Deep House must surely be the most muddled musical grouping around these days; the phrase seems to stumble around lost, like an embarrassingly drunk and slightly unhinged colleague at last month's office party. This lovely hunk of wax from...
"I've owned this CD for 2 years and would nearly kill anyone who would do harm to it." -- "A Customer", October 15, 1999
It was 1995, and if you were young, underage and drifting toward the rave scene, your...
Years before I knew him, I heard about him - this guy from France who made these incredibly sensual and deep records that each found their way as the "secret weapon" in the bag of hundreds of underground DJs.
And...
"Just some good ol' funky House Music": Musician, DJ, producer and Dance Mania impresario Parris Mitchell mixes down a new DJ set and sits for a conversation in another installment of A 5 Mag Mix, 5 Magazine's new mix...
Rush Hour in Amsterdam has scooped the world again with a gorgeous selection of tracks from a name we haven't heard from in awhile: Chicago's Vincent Floyd.
Moonlight Fantasy is the name of the compilation of previously unreleased tracks...
Last month we wrote about Kevin Starke, whose Kstarke Records store lends its name to his in-house record label.
This month, Chicago’s Gramaphone has announced a rejuvenation of its own in-house imprint. Gramaphone Records (the store) is re-launching Gramaphone...
I've been sitting awake all night, pacing between a computer, a phone and a laptop. In the background two audio feeds are playing simultaneously, overlapping in peculiar and sometimes extraordinary ways. One is a feed of a police scanner...
Alex Chilton spent most of his life in obscurity, working for shit wages to support himself as his records were released in tiny bundles that might as well have not been released at all. "Somewhere along the line," he...
FIRST, OPEN A RECORD STORE. Open it a few months before Tower becomes the first of the major record chains to liquidate, and preferably at a time when the industry in general is lying prostrate on the ground. It...
Big news today that may bring the long, tortured saga of Chicago's crumbling landmark Congress Theater in Logan Square to a close.
Darryl Holliday of DNAinfo is reporting that a redevelopment plan for the Congress is now underway. The plan...
Jay Denes, recording exclusively (and rarely) these days as Blue Six, is one of the most remarkable artists in dance music. I've always been fascinated with the guy's records and the heady philosophy behind them, to the extent of...
I wrote a few months back that Moods & Grooves had probably the best undiscovered back catalog of any record label in the Midwest.
On hand as Exhibit A is the fourth in a series of reissues over the...
5 Magazine welcomes Mark Farina back to Chicago this December 27 at SmartBar (Facebook page/tix here).
To warm up the room, Mark agreed to sit for our How I Play series, in which we talk to renown artists from around...
Beatport has confirmed that it is launching a new Beatport streaming service starting next year. What does this mean for labels that sell on the site?
In a puffy interview with Beatport Creative Director Clark Warner, Billboard's Megan Buerger dramatically...
Another of the seminal artists that powered Chicago's early House Music scene has passed away.
5 Magazine has confirmed that legendary House Music vocalist Kevin Irving - whose voice was heard on tracks including "Children of the Night", "Ride the...
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