If rap music is the CNN of black America, dancehall reggae is the equivalent for ghetto youth in Jamaica. Since first emerging in the late ’60s, Jamaican DJs (the reggae version of hip-hop’s MCs) have ...

Friday nights at the bSide are marked by DJs Why B and Kid Cut Up's innovative mixes. "I have no problem playing commercial music," says Cut Up, but both adhere to the idea that hip-hop is "more about ...

Iconic British DJ, David Rodigan, is expected to give his last performance on Island — at least for a while — through two nights of blazing music at the weekend. On Friday night, he will be headlining ...

Sergio Ortiz is a soft-spoken teacher in San Antonio College’s music business program. But as the reggae artist Sgt. Remo, he makes some serious noise with a wall of speakers that looks like ...

Reggae has been part of Jamaica’s ‘starting gun’, given voice to Rastafarianism and fired up crowds from Trench Town to Yokohama. Yet when Earl Gateshead, one of the pioneers of the UK scene, found ...

Hands are the primary tools of most DJs. So when Scott Damnit‘s stopped working, things looked grim. “After my surgeries, my hands were about as useful as chicken cutlets,” says Damnit, the founder of ...

Today, SoundCloud CEO Kerry Trainor announced at Amsterdam Dance Event that DJs will soon be able to mix and perform by streaming material from SoundCloud’s catalog within DJ softwares. Traditionally, ...

Jahmar Anthony, who performs as DJ Jahmar, is a Tucson-based producer. Credit: (Thomas Amavisca/Submitted) As a musician, Jahmar Anthony, who works under the name of DJ Jahmar, tries to honor his ...

MIDDLESBROUGH’S first large-scale reggae festival will be staged in 2019. In May next year, a host of bands and DJs will take over The Hub at Teesside University, where reggae fans can enjoy a day of ...

Apple Music has quietly built up a substantial collection of DJ mixes from electronic, dance, and hip-hop heavyweights thanks to a new tool that allows rights holders and DJs to get paid for their… By ...