When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Paul Natkin/Getty Images DJ Shadow, the turntablist don and electronic experimentalist ...

Sometimes an artist has to grow. You can either keep rehashing the same tired-ass shtick until you fall apart, or you can try to spread your wings and fly. Can you fly, Bobby? Robocop references aside ...

DJ Shadow has to get used to being in the spotlight again. Born Josh Davis, the artist gets his moniker from the idea that producers were meant to be behind the scenes. Putting his background in ...

From ’90s sample-heavy hip-hop to millenial hyphy experiments, he has been predicting the next phase of rap music for 20 years. But now the 40-year-old experimental hip-hop DJ-producer (born Joshua ...

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Going on three decades since he released his influential 1996 debut Endtroducing..., Bay Area turntable legend DJ Shadow continues to push the boundaries of his art in new directions. That recording - ...

DJ Shadow unveiled a different kind of pop-up video in the new lyric video for “Our Pathetic Age,” the title-track from his most recent album. The song is a mid-tempo disco ballad that features a ...

DJ Shadow paid tribute to Blackalicious’ Gift of Gab following news of the rapper’s death at the age of 50. “He was, quite simply, the most preternaturally gifted MC I’ve ever worked with,” the ...

Known as the godfather of instrumental hip-hop, DJ Shadow (real name Josh Davis) has proven himself with groundbreaking, genre-defining solo output on such respected labels as Solesides and Mo' Wax.

In some ways, artists whose debuts are lousy, or competent, or fairly strong but not fabulous, have an easier time of it than do performers who knock the cover off the ball during their first at-bat.

There was mass singing and dancing and celebrating in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday night, but not all of it was in response to the Lakers' "threepeat" victory. Hundreds of equally enthusiastic ...