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 A pays tribute to iconic model Pat Cleveland, the Girls from 7th Avenue and the birth of voguing on Legendary Runway.
The groundbreaking film focusing on Black artists from Detroit will be screened May 26 with a film workshop May 27 in Detroit.
Classy deep house from S. Hoellermann gets a cosmetic makeover for the '90s and, weirdly, the '20s too.
During the pandemic, Carly Wilford came across a study claiming that only 2% of all music producers were women. Reading that stat, she says, "gave me the fire under my feet to learn."
Greek producer Lex fell in love with the bass and it's a love that he consummates in public with the bass-loving groove of "Fast Jags," a new single on B2 Recordings.
Producer, DJ, composer for films and a 100% pure Detroit electronic music artist, Reggie Dokes is at heart a searcher, a seeker in the tradition of great Black diaspora seekers like Sun Ra. His music is heady, introspective, interstellar and dope a f.
Footwork, ghetto tech, speedy dragsters, sirens, a little filthy 2step smeared across the crust and an MC spitting verses about nitrous. It's a raver's Christmas wishlist and it's a bass DJ's Christmas miracle
5 Mag's RISE series features a new mix from Soul Foundation's Brian Gardner.
Somebody painted over the Hubbard St. viaduct murals to Frankie Knuckles and Juice WRLD in Chicago. Nobody knows who, or why.
The third release from Funkyjaws' eponymous label passes the hat around and collects a wide variety of tracks from friends, who proceed to fuck the shit out of them with reconstructed 303s.
Making her debut with a two track deep house EP on Closer To Truth.
Hacking, Russian agents & a cybercrime boss with a love for the vibe: the strange story of Vyacheslav Penchukov, the DJ king of Donetsk.
Good food, good people, good house: The long running Chicago street festival returns to West Town July 7 through 9 2023 with the Chicago House DJ stage right in the middle of it all.
Smallville packs a lot of sound in a 12" and Dana Ruh packs a lot of energy in this four track release. Different Places Different Faces offers Ruh's take on modern but timeless deep house.
It was unanimous and if everything goes right The Warehouse will soon have landmark status in the city of Chicago.
The dopest music, we all know, lives in the margins - the hand-stamped white label, the disco/drone mix up, the strange music that comes from artists that don't sound like something we already love.
Though nobody could have guessed at the time, this would be the final record for Love Notes, one of our favorite labels and one of the best to emerge in the last half of the '10s.
A meeting this Thursday April 13 2023 will consider granting preliminary landmark status to the building that formerly housed The Warehouse, Frankie Knuckles' first Chicago residency where house music was born.
Slick beats and bubbly organs and they tickle like champagne and these form the basis for "Waiting," a collaboration between a supergroup of UK Garage producers including Todd Edwards, Matt Jam Lamont, Scott Diaz and MC Smasher.
Chicago techno condottiere Frankie Vega beats the box on Pathway, a three track EP from techno friendship society UKR.
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Library of Congress adds Jamie Principle’s “Your Love” to National Recording Registry
The classic of classic Chicago house tracks was selected for preservation as one of "the defining sounds of history and culture." Here's how it was made.
