Back in the late 1960s, creating music anywhere was made much easier with a now iconic toy-like pocket synth called the Stylophone. Now Dubreq is aiming to do the same for beat makers with a portable ...

SEATTLE — Almost 12 years ago, KOMO News photojournalist Doug Pigsley and I went to visit a 10-year-old kid named Jonathan Carollo. The thing about Jonathan was that he could bang out a really cool ...

Hip-hop beat-makers are usually unseen. Not all sample-based producers are as reclusive as the torch-bearing loop artist Madlib, but even the most prominent among them are part of the backdrop. After ...