For many, exactly what a DJ does up in that DJ booth at the club is a mystery. But now you can find out with DJ Hero, the latest in the never-ending line of Hero games from Activision. Because this is a new type of music game, there's a lot to explain, but let's get this out of the way first: DJ Hero is fantastic. It's one of the best games I've played this year and one of the best music games I've ever played.

Europe’s main super club, BCM, has been throwing parties for over twenty years, attracting the world’s best DJs, artists and performers. BCM is renowned as the ultimate clubbing experience. It’s this experience that BCM wants to share with you, when they take over and completely transform Oceana Plymouth on Saturday 10th April 2010 for one massive UV PARTY… It’s time to RAVE and MISBEHAVE !!!

Electronic heavyweights Minus will shortly release a documentary about their Contakt show, an improvisational tour in celebration of the label's ten year anniversary. The no-holds barred documentary takes in the rough and the smooth and everything in between as Mr. Hawtin and his merry band of minimal pranksters try to inject some serious highbrow thinking into the usual clubbing experience.

Highly regarded by both DJ Magazine and ultra-loyal fans, DJ Tiësto, due in part to his legendary six-hour, energetic live sets, has been elevated to mythical status as one of the world's foremost trance DJs. A native of Breda, Netherlands (born Tijs Verwest on January 17, 1969), Tiësto first starting playing out at a well-known club. Highly regarded by both DJ Magazine and ultra-loyal fans.

Erykah Badu has embarked on one of the more ambitious projects in recent R&B history: This year, she'll release New AmErykah, a series of at least two, possibly three, albums tackling socio-political issues like poverty and 9/11, drawing on musical styles from the Forties through the Sixties, and promising, she says, to "talk for my race and my planet." Badu kicks off the first disc by indulging her arty side: 4th World War is mostly dark.

Puff Daddy couldn't rap back then, and he really can't now either. The real reason I wrote this review was to let the world know something that is The biggest hip-hop impresario of the mid-'90s, Sean Combs -- known as Puff Daddy both here and in the world of rap until his professional name change to P. Diddy, then just Diddy -- created a multi-million-dollar industry around Bad Boy Entertainment, with recordings by the Notorious B.I.G.

First Eminem released “Crack a Bottle,” then videos for the jokey “We Made You” and deadly serious “3 A.M.” This past weekend, some fans may have found a way to hear a few more cuts from Relapse, Slim Shady’s first album in nearly five years. But Rolling Stone has listened to the entire album the way it was meant to be heard — and our official review of Eminem’s Relapse is right here.

The EBONY Poll, which was announced in the April 2002 issue of the magazine and which drew large numbers of respondents from all sections of the country, is the latest indication of the excitement in the Black music world which is still, according to our respondents, evolving. The best indication of this perhaps was the sharp split in preferred music styles.

Look for U2 to make an announcement soon that a DVD of last year's U2 360 concert in Pasadena is on the way. There's a web page setup now at livedvd.u2.com with this message: U2 will release a DVD of the Pasadena Rose Bowl concert in 2010. The band are still working on the exact content of the DVD, but if you register here you can be the first to hear about an exclusive format.

In this week’s Kerrang! magazine, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong reveals that the punk heroes have already started work on the follow-up to last year’s 21st Century Breakdown. Despite making fans wait five years in between 2004’s American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown, Armstrong promises that the as-yet-untitled follow-up will be completed sooner rather than later.