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.
The Spanish festival admits at least 39 acts have pulled out Sónar's 2025 event in response to a call for a boycott over their private equity owner KKR's financial interests in Israel's occupation of Palestine.
The workshopping and networking event for electronic music artists returns in November with special guest John Curley and more.
"For 28 years, we've poured our hearts, resources, and creativity into uplifting thousands of Black and Brown artists, entrepreneurs, and community members in Chicago. Now we're asking for something we rarely do: help."
The inventor of the MPC takes Behringer's dupe of his iconic LinnDrum for a test drive.
Featuring a guest DJ set from Eddie Fowlkes and art from Abdul Qadim Haqq on Monday May 26 at TV Lounge.
Panelists Norm Talley, Delano Smith, Stacey "Hotwaxx" Hale and moderator Kai Alcé chart the formation of techno among Detroit's youth in the late 1970s and 1980s.
Fifteen years in the making, the documentary by Jeno and Martin O'Brien is available via VOD and for streaming for free on Tubi.
Listen to the latest 5 Mag cover mix from our brand new issue featuring Galen, co-founder of Sunset Sound System and an icon of the West Coast and North American dance music scene.
Valerio Vaudano loves this retro house sound so much he reverse engineered it like a shaggy computer scientist hacking a ROM BIOS chip in 1982. The four tracks on Lose My Mind were apparently created "using a '90s sampler without using a computer." Can you tell?
Damian Rausch does 4am really well - that last pump of energy, that last song or the first last song before you give up whatever plans you had for a responsible life and an early morning because you're going to remember what happens here with much more tenderness than you remember waking up on time and having a sensible breakfast.
The hottest house tracks of 2025 were made in 1996. DJ Romain's "The Lost D.A.T.S." series evokes a time when Times Square was dirty and nightlife was a freaky wonderland.
Lundstrom served jail time for his role in The Pirate Bay, not for financing three generations of insane Swedish politics.
After several successful crowdsourcing campaigns, French synth maker Aodyo crashed into bankruptcy. What went wrong?
Signed to Ralph Lawson's 20/20 Vision Recordings, ASHRR is aiming one directly at the house scene with this remix pack featuring Ron Trent.
The world has gone wrong in every way we can measure but Austin Bascom is back and dropping tracks again and they're as good as they were back in the day.
You gotta really think about this one for a minute.
It's dangerous to put two volatile elements together and madness to put this out. Zed Bias remixes KiNK's KAZAN on Hypercolour - just 4 minutes and 57 seconds of trippy DJ silly putty.
Amsterdam deep house duo Dam Swindle have announced the forthcoming release of OPEN, Swindle's first album since 2018's High Life. Listen to the first single, "Girl," featuring vocalist Faye Meana.
Nobody captured the energy and fun of house music better than DJ Funk.
This is Volume 3 and the final part of Genius of Time's "Vocal Series," a collection of EPs built around vocal hooks and minimal and dubby but vibrant instrumentation.
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Library of Congress adds Jamie Principle’s “Your Love” to National Recording Registry
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