Call me DJ Jazzy Jenn. Sure, I’m a 32-year-old white girl with helmet hair from riding my bicycle to the Old Town School of Folk Music. But it doesn’t take me long to figure out that being a good ...

I like to have things. Things that are tangible. Some call that collecting. I call it having things. So it was only a matter of time until I got into vinyls—collecting my favorite albums, and picking ...

DJ Chi bobs his head to the hip-hop rhythm, one hand skipping over the vinyl record, the other on the mixer. Possum, Raydar, Moses and the other DJs in the room listen to his beat. This is a ...

Still have room for another game controller amidst your piles of plastic guitars? The upcoming game Scratch: The Ultimate DJ features a turntable-style controller, giving hip hop fans and budding DJs ...

If you’d told me not so long ago that I could have a touch screen device in my pocket quick enough to allow me to manipulate audio by scratching with a virtual turntable, I’d have told you to get out ...

It goes without saying that not everyone has the same taste in music, and what sounds amazing to one person will be the next person’s noise. But even if you’re not into hip-hop and the whole DJ scene, ...

If there's one thing rock and metal fans can say about Rage Against the Machine / Audioslave / Street Sweeper Social Club guitarist Tom Morello, it's that he has a signature, iconic style that's ...

It may not have been as monumental as Elvis' or the Beatles' appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, but Herbie Hancock's performance of his hit song "Rockit" at the 1984 Grammy Awards was a seminal ...

NEW YORK -- Cecilia Chien stands at her instrument. It's a turntable. It doesn't just play music; it creates music, or so the philosophy of turntablism says. "Feelin' Freaky," by Nick Cannon and B2K, ...

My dad never understood how I broke his turntable attempting to mimic parts of “The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel” by Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5. The 1981 song was ...

Turntablism is the art of using the turntable as a musical instrument. DJ Shortkut explains turntablism in 15 levels of difficulty, from easy to complex. Shortkut starts with the very basics of ...

There is no way you’ll find this feline DJing with a laptop! Cat Scratch is made from recycled cardboard, costs $34.99, and features a posable tonearm and a pitch control slider that moves from ...