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Win Passes to the Sound Mind Music Festival for Mental Health Afterparty with DJ White Shadow
Taking place right after the FREE street fest in Brooklyn, NY on May 18th. Win Passes to the Sound Mind Music Festival for Mental Health Afterparty with DJ White Shadow Ben Kaye
BET+ Greenlights Series Based On Ludacris’ Life As A DJ
Fans of Ludacris will get a closer look at his life prior to becoming a world famous rapper. BET+ has greenlit a show based on his time as a DJ. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Atlanta, Georgia native is working with acclaimed film producers Malcolm D. Lee (Girls Trip, The Best Man) and Larry Wilmore […]
Watch Notorious Whistleblower Chelsea Manning DJ at a Brooklyn Rave
We did not Chelsea this coming. A former United States Army soldier, Chelsea Manning was famously convicted in 2013 for a myriad of offenses, including violations of the Espionage Act, after leaking nearly 750,000 classified military and diplomatic documents to WikiLeaks. She served seven years in prison, from 2010 to 2017, after her sentence was commuted by former President Barack Obama. After her release from prison in 2017, Manning, a former DJ, made her living through various speaking engagements. And after teasing a return to music earlier this summer, it appears she has dusted off her turntables and updated her Rekordbox library. Manning recently performed at a rave in Brooklyn, throwing down a DJ set at Elsewhere after a hiatus of over 15 years. Scroll to Continue Rec...
Wiz Khalifa Apologizes To DJ Community After Mishap With Club DJ’s
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz Wiz Khalifa is showing that he can admit when he is wrong. He has now formally apologized to the DJ community for his recent outburst against two club DJ’s. As per XXL the Pittsburgh talent is now saying sorry to all DJ’s worldwide. Last week he was performing tracks from his newest project Multiverse at Poppy nightclub in Los Angeles. During the set he berated DJ Mikey Danger over his alleged struggle skills on the turntables. He got so mad he offered to run the fade. “B*tch-ass ni**a, if you want to fight we can do it,” he said. “Y’all ni**as suck. Don’t hug me, b*tch,” after the DJ tried to hug him. “Play my new sh*t, ni**a. Play it. Play ‘Bad Ass B*tches.’” Related Stories Naturally the footage quic...
Getting Back in the DJ Booth: Jadaboo Talks Spinning For Six Hours at Diddy’s Parties, Her Viral ‘Rain’ Edit & Her 2022 Song of the Summer
As clubs have been reopening and shows have been resuming across the country after a year-and-a-half long COVID-19 pandemic pause on the live music industry, Billboard is asking club and touring DJs about their experience fading between spinning at home to performing back outside. There’s a saying that goes something like, “You can’t always be in the mix, or else you’ll lose your flavor.” But for seasoned DJ Jadaboo, she’s spinning at almost every popping party, premiere and afterparty and spreading her signature flavor of feel-good, old school and new school hip-hop, R&B, funk and dance music from coast to coast. After growing up seeing her loved ones involved in the music industry – her father was a producer and her high school sweetheart (now fiancé) is rapper Kyle – Jada wanted to ...
Getting Back in the DJ Booth: Siobhan Bell Talks Spinning at Diddy & WizKid’s Parties, Collaborating with Karl Lagerfeld and Taking the Reopened World By Storm
As clubs have been reopening and shows have been resuming across the country after a year-and-a-half-long COVID-19 pandemic pause on the live music industry, Billboard is asking club and touring DJs about their experience fading between spinning at home to performing back outside. The world is Siobhan Bell’s stage. After growing up in South London and moving to East London at age 18, Bell found a circle of friends to spin with and formed the “Work It” DJ collective that regularly hosted the hottest parties around town. But Bell learned how to fly solo and make a name brand for herself, starting up her beloved “Cherryade” underground parties a decade ago in Dalston to designing items for Karl Lagerfeld’s fall-winter 2020 music collection. The internationally renowned DJ’s creative expressio...
Kaskade Is Releasing a Reimagined Version of His Iconic “Fire and Ice” Album
Kaskade‘s Fire & Ice album from 2011 is getting reworked in a big way. The iconic “Room for Happiness” producer took to social media last week to announce version three of his seminal Fire and Ice album, noting that some of the songs will include vocals from the original singer-songwriters. “If you remember or if you were here in Southern California, I had a Fire & Ice 10-year anniversary party,” Kaskade says in his video. “In preparation for that show I was at the studio one day all stressed out. I was here trying to figure out the vibe for what I was going to do that day. In that process I started thinking, ‘What if I just remade the record? What if I made new versions?'” “I’ve been road-testing a bunch of new...
TIDAL Revamps DJ Tools With Sights on Revolutionizing How Streaming Platforms Can Aid Artists
In the highly competitive market of music streaming, TIDAL‘s strength has always been separating itself from the rest of the pack. With the recent revamp of the platform’s DJ tools, they are set to be the only one transforming the art of DJing in their own unique way. TIDAL has long offered integrations with Serato, djay Pro, Pioneer, Denon, and Virtual DJ, but now offers DJUCED and edjing as well. This means DJs will be able to select music from their TIDAL library and stream high-fidelity tracks directly to a myriad of DJ software. In continuation of their pursuit to influence the art of DJing, they’re offering curated playlists for DJs to choose from, such as rap instrumentals and afrobeat hits. Guest playlist curators like D-Nice also offer their own p...
DJ and Live Nation Executive Identified as Victim in Miami Condominium Collapse
Tragedy struck in Miami on June 24th when the Surfside condominium building collapsed, leading to a death toll of 97 people. Among the victims were DJ-turned-Live Nation executive Theresa Velásquez, along with her parents Julio and Angela. Performing under the name DJ Theresa, Velásquez was a DJ and label owner of Audio4Play, and also worked for major brands such as SFX Entertainment and Sony Music before moving onto Live Nation at the age of 36. Velásquez became a Senior Vice President at Live Nation’s Los Angeles office, where she advocated for inclusivity for the industry’s LBGTQ+ artists and women. She earned a spot on Billboard‘s Pride List of industry-shaping LGBTQ+ executives last year. Theresa Velásquez died as a result of the Surfside cond...
Ibiza DJ Accused of $14 Million Money Laundering Scheme
Mikaela Jav may be a name familiar to those who spend their time on the party island of Ibiza in Spain. Jav is a popular resident DJ on the Balearic island, where she hosted her popular “Mikaela & Friends” parties beginning in 2015. The parties gained the DJ some notoriety, building her social media accounts significantly, where she shared many lavish photos of a globetrotting lifestyle. But those photos also caught the attention of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and Transparency International’s UK chapter, who launched an investigation against Jav. The DJ, whose real name is Izzat Khanim Javadova, is also the cousin of Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. Jav and her husband Suleyman Javadov came under investigation for fun...
World’s Longest-Working DJ Retires After Record-Breaking Career of 70 Years
The world’s longest-working DJ is easing into retirement at the end of an illustrious career. Hong Kong’s Ray Cordeiro, a radio DJ with a career spanning an awe-inspiring 70 years, called it quits last month at the age of 96. Cordeiro’s route into radio was a circuitous one, but appreciation for music was something he developed at a very young age. With a brother 10 years his senior, Cordeiro was heavily inspired by his tastes, listening to his brother’s record collection when he wasn’t home. The start of Cordeiro’s professional career saw him working odd jobs, going from being a warden to a bank clerk. He eventually went back to pursuing his education in London, when he landed the opportunity of a lifetime to interview the Beatles...
New Project Will Teach the Art of DJing to the Homeless in Glasgow
A new bid to change the lives of Glasgow’s homeless population seeks to teach the underprivileged how to DJ. Started by electronic music-based social enterprise Turn The Tables, the Homelessness DJ Project already has the support of legendary techno duo Slam and Glasgow’s DJ Nightwave, among many others. Partnering with Groove City Radio and The Sub Club, the Homelessness DJ Project will work alongside third party organizations and charities to host workshops for people facing homelessness to learn the technical and artistic skills of DJing. Those workshops will be hosted in a new state-of-the-art studio in Granton, with multiple rooms and socially distant areas both indoors and outdoors. Members of the public are also encouraged to join workshops that wil...
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