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The track is Ferg's first track with Roc Nation

A$AP Ferg and Pharrell have shared a new track produced by The Neptunes.

After returning last year with a track produced alongside Jay-Z, The...

Our new DJ Mag Originals video series, Meet the MC, launches today (4th March). As well as telling the stories of this crucial new wave...

Paradoxically, in 2021, starting out as a rap producer is both easier and harder than ever before. Easier, because young beatmakers have more tools at...

Kenny Beats arranged the set up for the aspiring rapper

Producers have funded a bedroom studio for an 11-year-old MC.

The young rapper, who went viral when a Twitter user shared a photo of him...

From the underground mixtape beatmakers, to those crossing over into the rap mainstream and drill scenes at home and abroad, Colin Gannon asks — who...

Like dance music, rap has a tendency to splinter into specialised subgenres. Back in 2012, Chicago producers Young Chop, DJ L and Smylez began warping...

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Point Blank have again teamed up with Resident Advisor to launch their scholarship programme, the Young Producers Scholarship. This scholarship initiative was created to help passionate musicians...

It was premiered during his latest 'blonded RADIO' show

Frank Ocean has released a new track called 'DHL', which is produced by Boys Noize.

The track was given its debut during the latest edition...

The man also known as Mariel Ito made the announcement today... 

Maceo Plex has revealed plans to open a studio for young producers in Barcelona, according to a post on Twitter. 

The techno don, whose Mariel...

Angello to oversee music for EDM-themed drama series.

After the stinker that was Zac Efron’s EDM film ‘We Are Your Friends’, you’d think the television industry would have lost their appetite for a...

An hour of power from the young New Jersey polymath

SJAYY’s mix for DJ Mag’s Radio 1 Dance residency is available to stream on demand now. Listen to it here, or via the BBC...

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In May 2019 Point Blank attended IMS Ibiza to check out the annual summit’s festivities and explore the variety of panels, events and parties on offer...

New mix platform, wav.world, launches with payments for DJs and producers

The new subscription-based mix platform asks, "What if we treated music with the value it deserves?" — the first edition is helmed by Fever AM's Mor Elian and Rhyw

A new mix platform wants to "give music the value it deserves" by paying contributing DJs and featured artists. wav.world is a new subscription-based mix...

Press shot of DJ Premier in a black hat looking toward the camera in a t tshirt that says "Royalty"

For over three decades, DJ Premier has consistently proven himself to be one of hip-hop’s greatest producers. As he releases his new EP, 'Hip Hop 50: Vol 1', celebrating the genre’s 50th anniversary, he speaks to Arielle Lana LeJarde about evolving with the culture and the hip-hop/dance music connection

“I’m raised off being a fan first,” DJ Premier states clearly. “Before DJing, before producing or anything else, I’m a fan.” He sits across from...

The two groups wanted to collaborate after catching each other's performances at festivals 

Ibibio Sound Machine has announced a new album, ‘Electricity’, which will drop via Merge Records on 25th March. 

It's the first new full-length from the...

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As the Christmas period rapidly approaches many of you will be starting to think about what presents you’re going to have to buy this year. Whether...

When the Covid-19 pandemic cleared Dutch producer, DJ and label boss Martyn’s diary, he turned his attention to others: starting his own mentoring programme for...

Martyn has spent the last 25 years making electronic music, but the Dutch artist still remembers his earliest days keenly. “I started in drum &...