Hip-Hop turntablist Rob Swift is making good on his vow to give back to the art of DJ ing with his upcoming DVD, As the Technics Spin. The DVD, which was directed by Eljay Williams, offers a glimpse ...

DJ Babu, a pioneering figure in the world of DJing and hip-hop culture, will join the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins University with this fall's launch of the conservatory's ...

Philip Jeck—the British experimental composer, turntablist, and multimedia artist—has died. Jon Wozencroft and Mike Harding from Touch confirmed the news in a statement published on Jeck’s website, ...

One of the most hard-line proponents of hip-hop culture is an unassuming record clerk from Boulder. Yeah, we know, Boulder sometimes seems like the polar opposite of everything street, but in the ...

Artists have been using—and misusing—the turntable as a musical instrument for decades, but no one played it quite like Philip Jeck. He employed a battery of vintage monophonic record players to ...

In the early days of Incubus, turntablist Chris Kilmore remembers a lot of nonstop action. “We took four weeks to write Make Yourself and four weeks to record it. And then, we were back out on the ...

Turntablists of Arizona, we hope you’ve been practicing. The best DJs in the Southwest will face off on Sunday at local hip-hop shop Trill during the 2024 DMC Phoenix Regional DJ Battle and your ...

This relatively new musical tradition of turntablism has a fascinating and rich history which is only about 40 years old. To my mind it’s one of the most unique and interesting instruments to emerge ...