The 2011 America's Best DJ Winner is Kaskade from Los Angeles! Big thanks to all those who voted this year as the turnout was tremendous. Kaskade was honored on October 9th in Vegas at the ABDJ Closing Party which included a press reception and presentation of the Gold-Plated Pioneer Mixer for the winner. Second place in the 2011 ABDJ voting was DJ Skrillex and third place was DJ Z-Trip. Check the press release inside for more details and reaction from the winner.

The Scratch DJ Academy just celebrated their 10th Year Anniversary on January 15th, 2013 with heavy hitter DJ's such as DJ Qbert, ATRAK, and Kool Herc on hand in the NYC Scratch Academy to put their skills on display and show you what can be learned through the curriculum. The Scratch DJ Academy is the absolute best place to go if you want to learn how to DJ and produce music with hands-on experience, lessons, and advice directly from industry professionals and experts. Check out the video performances from the event and enrolling class information after the jump.

This year's 2013 Boom DJ Battle promises to be a great event for DJ's or anyone who loves music and simply wants to have a great time. The Boom DJ Battle is the country's largest under 21 DJ competition that has the top young DJ talent all over the country compete against one another for Boom DJ Supremacy. The registration for the contest is now open to all DJ's ages 14-21 with registration closing on Thursday May 30th. Finalists will be chosen on June 3rd and the final competition and other festivities will be held at Toyota park on June 15th 2013 at the B96 Pepsi Summer Bash. Details inside.

DJ A-trak is the youngest person to ever win the DMC World Title at the young age of 15 in 1997. He was also one-half of the Allies DJ Team consisting of himself and DJ Craze; together they won the 2000 DMC World Team Championship. With all these accolades and many more, I thought I would share a quick video that shows the skills of A-trak and what it takes to be one of the best in the game! (Video Inside after the Jump!).

The 2013 DMC US DJ Battle Finals took place on Saturday Aug. 3, 2013 at Stage 48 in New York City. The audience was treated to one of the best DJ battles of all time as all the contestants could easily have been in the top three. None of the judges could agree on the same top-three. The top-three contestants in the US Battle (1st DJ Esquire, 2nd DJ Sparechange, 3rd DJ Ease) will all go represent the US in the DMC World DJ Championships on October 5th in London.

My personal favorite DJ is doing something different than the norm once again. To celebrate his 25 years of turntable supremacy, DJ Qbert (with the help of WAIL) has created 250 original works of art which will be sold on February 19th, 2011 in California. Each piece in the collection of 250 are massive in size and include photography, graphic art, found images, and acrylics. Each piece will be a true "one-of-a-kind" collectible. Details and Press Release inside.