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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to headline a music festival? Standing on a stage, with the world’s biggest hits at your fingertips, flashing lights, and a thunderous audience cheering you on? That may all sound too good to be true, but what if it can be? From the creators of Rock […]
We aren’t quite at the point where we can be back at clubs and restaurants in a way that isn’t weird. But until we are, we have a lot of work to do. As we see more call-outs and calls for accountability every day, almost every industry is experiencing a reckoning. For DJs in Toronto, […]
Paul Chin’s music hits that spot—weighty with bass but still gossamer, tangled with minimal drum and bass and pierced with the kind of delicately strung, distant-sounding synth that makes your heart ache. If you have a honey at home, this is the music for getting close with the lights low. Chin’s latest EP is the type […]
Acclaimed DJ Mick is using his platform to unite the DJ community and rally against police brutality. Mick announced the #Mix4Change initiative on Sunday. He provided further details on how to get involved on Monday. In the post, Mick encouraged DJs to create a one-hour set that can be played on Instagram Live. He is also helping […]
Eric B. was released from a New Jersey jail Tuesday, after spending two weeks behind bars. The NJ Advance Media reports Eric B.—legal name Eric Barrier—was jailed Oct. 28 in Bergen County on a 17-year-old bench warrant. According to the outlet, the DJ/producer/actor had pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and resisting arrest in early 2002. Eric B. failed to appear […]
Compared to his early shock jock persona, Howard Stern has become much more tame. The self-proclaimed “king of all media” rose to prominence in the ’90s with his boundary-pushing radio interviews that were often disrespectful and sexual in nature. Though this approach proved to be very lucrative, the 65-year-old now admits he may have taken the […]
DJ Spinderella has announced that she won’t be appearing alongside Salt-N-Pepa on their current tour. Salt-N-Pepa have joined New Kids on the Block for their latest trek, the #NKOTB Mixtape Tour, which kicked off Thursday night in Cincinnati. However, Spinderella—who has been with the group since 1987—was nowhere to be seen. She shared the news right […]
While on Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, and Bruce Headlam’s Broken Record podcast, Questlove told the story of the time President Barack Obama asked him to play some French Montana. It all went down while he was DJing at the White House. “So two hours into it, he taps me on the shoulder, ‘You’re doing a good job! I […]
YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s legal troubles continue. YoungBoy and fellow rapper Quando Rondo are now being sued by YoungBoy’s former DJ for allegedly attacking him at a Florence, South Carolina concert in December 2018, The Advocate reports. The DJ, Carl Capers, claims that the two rappers punched and kicked him while he acted as Youngboy’s […]
On Monday, The Breakfast Club gave some air time to Nicki Minaj by playing some freestyles she put out this past weekend on her Apple music show, Queen Radio. After that, the co-hosts discussed DJ Envy‘s prior aversion to airing Minaj’s music. The segue to this discussion came after they played the lyrics “And then they […]
