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.

As we reported in an earlier post, the DJ Qbert 250 Canvases unveil is upon us. For those of you who went to the website to register, then you received a nice little email containing the exclusive details regarding the release of these DJ Qbert created works of art and how you can reserve one to be shipped directly to your doorstep. Details and Sign-up Information after the jump.

The biggest and baddest world DJ Competition is going viral! The DMC turntablist championship is now also an online competition. Introducing the DMC Online DJ Championship where turntablists all over the world are able to send in videos in order to compete against other worldwide DJ hopefuls. So whether you are interested in competing or simply voting for a winner, all you have to do is visit the site and sign-up! Videos can be submitted on February 14th and round one of competition begins on March 3rd, so hurry up and get it crackin! (Links, Rules, and Sign-up Inside).

Turntablist Video Friday makes another rare appearance today and this time we're back once again with the third Webisode in the "On Da Spin" series with DJ Diamond. During this online series, there will be feature interviews along with other footage from known and unknown DJ's. Each webisode will showcase the DJ and gives them a chance to give their opinion and insight on their musical experiences. This third webisode features DJ Diamond getting busy on the 1's & 2's and he also gives a sick interview about the whole DJ Game! Peep the video 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.