Via YouTube – how to make beats:

JamGlue is a new online community where you can listen to or mix music from a library of tracks and other mixes.
The site’s goal is to provide “Remixing for the Masses” via a Flash-based mixing board. The board is a lot slicker than its Splicemusic counterpart. The question to be answered is whether there is [...]

Top British DJ Paul Oakenfold reportedly is desperate to quit making music so he can become a film producer.
Some would argue that he quit making music when he released his last CD, A Lively Mind, which was only redeemed by his trashy collaboration with Brittany Murphy. But just about anything would be redeemed by [...]

Every week at Axehole, we bring you the most unusual audio and music news of the week, the one thing that makes us wonder “WTF?”.
In previous weeks, we’ve tried to avoid to avoid crass and exploitative news about sex and music. We made exceptions, of course, for the MP3 shoes for hookers, the iPod accessory [...]

DJ Paul Van Dyk has made a PSA for Rock the Vote:

“You have the right to choose – you have the right to vote” – Paul Van Dyk

Topless DJing appears to be going mainstream.
DJ Niki Belucci joins DJ Portial Surreal and DJ Diva in spinning the discs topless.
Warning: Not worksafe.
The video below contains graphic images of DJ Niki Belucci in action. This video contains nudity and old-school house music that some may find offensive.

What do you do when you have too many classic Technics turntables laying around?
If you’re Aaron Higgins, you chop one up and turn it into the TurntablePC:

“This Technics 1200MK II is now a fully functioning computer,” notes Higgins. “The turntable has a new purpose: as a Windows based PC running MixMeister DJ [...]

Music producer William Orbit, who handled the production work on Madonna’s electronica-influenced Ray of Light, is now working with Gwyneth Paltrow.
“Gwyneth has messed around with husband Chris Martin,” according to source. “She would not work on music with her husband, she feels like she would be treading on his toes.”
Considering that many consider Orbit’s collaboration [...]