It's disarmingly easy to become an amateur DJ in 2017, when an iPhone and a $1.99 app will quickly have you on your way to learning the basics of mixing songs together, or a thumb drive filled with ...

808: The movie, the long-awaited feature-length documentary about the TR 808 drum machine made by Roland just had its premiere at SXSW in Austin, Texas and in addition to telling the story technically ...

The English are a curious lot and among their many curiosities is a tendency to overthink and overanalyze various musical trends. Like the fabled trainspotters who camp out in railway stations ...

Dance music and hip-hop adopted its low-end bass technology immediately and its jagged effect now flood the Top 40 charts. Starting Friday, Dec. 9, 808, a documentary that traces the machine’s history ...

There is a particularly revealing moment at the very end of 808—the just-released documentary on Roland’s TR-808 Rhythm Composer, which has served as the backbone of hip-hop, R&B, electro, freestyle, ...

The Roland TR-808 is one of the most distinct, influential and beloved instruments of the early Eighties, with the electronic rhythm composer used by everyone from Talking Heads and Afrika Bambaataa ...

It’s almost impossible to imagine the modern musical landscape without the distinctive sounds of the Roland TR-808 drum machine. When the Japanese electronics company Roland started releasing the 808 ...

The new film, '808,' will arrive Dec. 9 as an Apple Music exclusive. By Dan Rys Almost two years after it premiered at the 2015 SXSW Film Festival, a film documenting the story of the Roland TR-808 ...

Apple Music has been able to secure a number of exclusive albums and singles for its subscribers since it first launched, but as we've heard in recent months, Apple is quickly looking to add video to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The same three numbers seemed to follow Brian Coakley, Scott Campbell and Collin Stover around town: 808. With a shared love for ...