2016 marked the fourth consecutive year that Red Bull Music Academy set up shop in New York, presenting a month-long festival that celebrated both the city’s musically distinct past and promising ...

Ian Dewhirst is best known as a compiler but he got his start in music DJing in the Northern Soul scene, where obscurity is everything. He stumbled into Northern Soul thanks to a job at a local market ...

(music: Liquid Liquid – “Bellhead”) Brendan M Gillen What kind of percussion were you guys using? This is a group of four people? Sal Principato Yeah, that was four guys making that noise. We were, in ...

(music: Kanye West – Blood On The Leaves “ (Instrumental)” / applause) Benji B Please welcome Mr Hudson Mohawke. Hudson Mohawke Hello. Benji B How are you doing? Hudson Mohawke Tired, good. Benji B ...

Todd L. Burns Please help me in welcoming Robert Hood [applause] Robert Hood Hello. Todd L. Burns Obviously, if people think about the name Robert Hood I think the first music that comes to mind is ...

Taiwo and Kehinde Hassan, AKA Christian Rich, have created some of the most progressive rap productions of the ’10s. Moreover, the Chicago-born twins haven’t become an assembly-line for similar ...

Brian Cross first encountered hip-hop in the early ’80s, a meeting that sealed a lifelong love affair between the music, the culture and the young Irish photographer. Cross eventually moved to Los ...

Daniele Baldelli is a true DJ icon. Italy’s equivalent to pioneering New York disco gods Francis Grasso, David Mancuso and Nicky Siano, Baldelli went from selecting rock, funk and soul 45s in ’69 on ...

The São Paulo edition of the Academy was not only RBMA’s first sojourn to Brazil. It was also the first time we presented a public-facing program of concerts and club nights that celebrated the host ...

Tony Humphries is the leader of the “Jersey sound” – a formative influence to a whole generation of artists, producers and DJs. His work behind the decks – whether it be at Newark nightclub Zanzibar, ...

Rollie Pemberton We're here at Red Bull Music Academy in Montréal. We are here to talk to a man who has mixed so many jams, so many tracks by Young Thug, T.I., Travis Scott. Here we have Alex Tumay.

Brian Fallon is a songwriting tour de force: ask Maria, Marilyn or Matilda. From his four albums with the Gaslight Anthem, to his soulful solo work and his Horrible Crowes side project, Fallon is one ...