On July 15, 2009 BPM Magazine joined Amp Energy Drink in Venice Beach to present the 2nd Annual BPMp3 Battle at AK1511! Teams included trendsetters all over town from LA to the OC: Dim Mak, The Cobrasnake, Lovemade, Eastskeet, From Elsewhere, Stonesthrow, and De la Barracuda. With J*DaVeY hosting the event, teams Read more...

This Michael Jackson video tribute mix was recorded live from the DJ mixer during PB Wolf’s VJ set @ the Echoplex in Los Angeles. It was prepared and performed a few hours after hearing the news of his passing on 6/25/09 and is in NO WAY COMPREHENSIVE of all of Michael’s brilliant work. The show Read more...

Most people automatically think hip-hop when they hear Mr. Stone’s Throw’s name. Wrong. Yeah, true, he pretty much started when hip-hop reared its head (buying records since age 9!), but Peanut Butter Wolf hasn’t spent the last 30 years with tunnel vision on a particular sound. He’s got “more records than Amoeba.” Not many guys Read more...

The third in Strut’s Inspiration Information studio collaboration series brings together an intriguing pairing between one of Africa’s great bandleaders, Mulatu Astatke, with the next level musicianship of The Heliocentrics collective from the mighty roster of Stones Throw / Now Again.
Known primarily through the successful ‘Ethiopiques’ album series and the film soundtrack to Jim Jarmusch’s Read more...

Four years is a long time to wait for an album, but that’s how long it took between Koushik’s first EP and his “debut” album. Taking hip-hop (and particularly sampling) as his departure point, this Canadian producer and singer glances back to ’60s era pop music while floating into the future on a magic carpet Read more...

The Vegas fashion conventions are upon us again, which means it’s time for one of the best parties of the year: Vapors, BPM and Triple 5 Soul’s sixth party together, appropriately named, VI.
This year we’ve brought artists and label-heads from three of the hottest record labels in the country together: Dim Mak, Stones Throw Read more...