A History of Hip Hop Sampling with John Morrison and Josh Leidy is 7 p.m. Friday, Feb. 7 at Monmouth University in West Long ...

Apple Music commissioned Mannie Fresh, Legatron Prime, DJ Poppa and KLC the Drum Major to make mixes ahead of Super Bowl LIX.

Even the most knowledgeable jazz fans might be surprised to learn that saxophonist James Brandon Lewis (JBL) has issued 16 ...

For hip-hop, this was expressed through the turntable manipulation pioneered by DJ Kool Herc in 1973, when he extended and looped breakbeats to energize crowds. House music’s innovators turned to the ...

Crafting infectious hits that stay on repeat has evolved greatly in Hip-Hop’s 50 years of existence. Before we had drum machines, DJ Kool Herc unknowingly sparked a revolution while spinning ...

Apple Music commissioned Mannie Fresh, Legatron Prime, DJ Poppa and KLC the Drum Major to make mixes ahead of Super Bowl LIX.

At its core, hip-hop is a voice for the voiceless seeking to address systemic inequities through storytelling.

drum machines and samplers – who made these groundbreaking advances in music. For hip-hop, this meant manipulating breakbeats from songs like Kraftwerk’s “Trans-Europe Express” and ...

Grayson Roberts and his family lost their Altadena home in the Eaton Fire. The 10-year-old was born with a rare eye condition ...

They were originally formed from frontman Jay Schottlander and drummer Erin Cook’s idea of a Merzbow project with coherent ...

808 bumping — the drums are just super punchy,” Shumpert-Reid said, describing the style. The “808” is a low bass and percussion machine sound that is often used in hip-hop. Chill Shump ...