Ready For Fall? Well Nicki is. And with her hair out, she graces the Fall Fashion issue of The Fader magazine. Read her cover story in its entirety here….

Young Thug keeps on dominating with his releases. The Rich-Gang memeber now gives his off the wall rhyme slaying style to mega producer Mike Will Made It for his upcoming mixtape Ransom….

  From acid throwbacks to digital curiosities, a number of small synths are making a splash right now. Phil Moffa runs through the best of them. There’s been a huge demand of late for affordable and compact hardware synthesizers that integrate into contemporary studio setups. Fittingly, some of the biggest names in music tech—from both…

FKA twigs releases her debut album, simply titled LP1, via Young Turks on August 12, and it’s fair to say it’s one of the most anticipated records of the year….

[Q With Jian Ghomeshi]

  Before his recent show at Mezzanine in San Francisco, Chicago house superstar Felix Da Housecat (who now splits his time between London and Atlanta) stopped in to the DJ TechTools studios….

  Jay Z and Beyonce‘s On The Run tour wraps in North America with two nights at AT&T Park in San Francisco, both tonight (August 5) and tomorrow night (August 6). The pair’s 19 North American shows will gross over $100 million in ticket sales and has sold at more than 90 percent capacity, according to Omar Al-Joulani,…

Vanilla Ice says that the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” song sounds “artificial,” “like a bunch of executives in the corporate world put it together.” Vanilla Ice says that “Shell Shocked,” a song from the forthcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie featuring Juicy J, Wiz Khalifa and Ty Dolla $ign, is not up to par….

  Akai Professional today introduced two new DJ controllers, the AFX and AMX. The AFX and AMX are both USB devices that add hands-on controls to a variety of DJ setups ranging from Serato NoiseMap Control Vinyl (DVS), minimalist controllers, HID-capable CD transports, and more….

Jupiter Ace demonstrates how some clever use of Ableton’s stock plug-ins, can achieve great results and polish up your final mix.  …