Catching Up With Steve Aoki

In a very short period of time, Steve Aoki has become not only a successful electronic artist and DJ, he’s also become quite an entrepreneur. Aoki owns the record label Dim Mak, which has released albums from Battles, Bloc Party and MSTRKRFT, amongst other. He’s also released his own clothing lines, restaurants, headphone brands, management companies, magazines and has now working on a new ad campaign with Pucker Vodka that includes a new remix of his track “Ladi Dadi”. Aoki talked with us about his first studio album Wonderland, his hardcore punk background and about his motivations to become a DJ professionally.  read more

16 Musicians Discuss Their First Concert T-Shirts

Some music fans’ closets contain museum-worthy tour shirt collections. But, no one forgets his or her first. So we asked 16 musicians, who now have their own merch to oversee, about their first concert Ts and the stories behind them.  read more

Weezer, Kid Cudi, Lil Jon Contribute to New Steve Aoki Album

Steve Aoki a busy guy, what with helming his own record label (Dim Mak), DJing at clubs, being in a band (Rifoki) and producing other people’s music. And he certainly is collecting an eclectic group of friends along the way. Aoki told MTV that his latest (currently unnamed) album will feature such varying voices as Weezer, Kid Cudi and Lil Jon, all remixed to fit in with Aoki’s dance electronic theme....  read more

Steve Aoki’s Dim Mak teams up with Downtown Records

If you’re the son of the founder of Benihana, even the onion volcano stops being impressive after awhile. So what do you do? Well, you step away from the hibachi and become a world-famous DJ and club promoter. Perhaps you even start a record label. It turns out that that’s exactly what happened to one Steve Aoki, who occasionally DJs as Kid Millionaire. But even a childhood exposure to dangerous, flying knives could not help Aoki run his own record label as successfully as he wanted. Aoki told the Los Angeles Times that Dim Mak, the label, wasn’t where he...  read more