DJ AM Found Dead in New York
8/28/09, 7:28 pm EST


DJ AM, born Adam Goldstein, has been found dead in his New York apartment, police sources confirm to TMZ. The DJ, mostly known for his work with Blink-182’s Travis Barker and handling the music at big-name celebrity hot-spots, last tweeted some Grandmaster Flash lyrics from “New York, New York”: “New york, new york. Big city of dreams, but everything in new york aint always what it seems” on August 25th. Sources tell TMZ he hadn’t been heard from in several days, and police broke down the door of his apartment when a friend knocked and got no answer.

The New York Post reports that drug paraphernalia was found in the musician’s Lafayette Street apartment. Goldstein spoke openly about his past struggles with drug and food addiction, telling Glamour in a revealing interview that he started freebasing cocaine when he was 20 years old. “For the next four years, that’s about all I did — with the exception of deejaying, which I’d been obsessed with ever since I saw Herbie Hancock do the song ‘Rockit’ at the Grammy Awards,” he told the magazine.

Almost exactly one year ago, Goldstein narrowly survived a Learjet crash that claimed the lives of the two pilots and two passengers. Barker recalled the harrowing moments during the pair’s escape in a recent Rolling Stone profile: “I was lying next to AM as the plane was exploding, and I was screaming, ‘Are we alive?’ ”

Barker’s on-and-off-girlfriend Shanna Moakler was one of the first to respond to the news online, tweeting, “My deepest condolences for DJ AM, you were a great artist and will be severely missed. My thoughts and Prayers to his family and friends.” ?uestlove added, “It’s one thing to lose a teacher I never met. But it’s some other shit to lose a teacher I knew.”

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damn. I only was really familiar with him due to the plane crash and when he and Travis did the mtv awards a few years ago

Shits crazy, what a fucked up 12 months or so for him. Its like Final Destination, death tracked him down

It's one hell of a publicity stunt!

^And on the exact same day the new Final Destination movie opened - New Line is really pulling out all the stops.

If Its an OD than thats Bullshit you get a 2nd chance at life and fuck it up.

it's so crazy how all these celebrities are just dropping dead this year... and I mean that in a semi-comical sense.
anyway I knew of DJ AM mostly b/c he and Nicole Richie were really serious about their relationship at one time.
too bad...but I hear this whole drug thing is pretty rampant among celebs.

I'm sorry that he died, but was DJ AM really famous for anything? I know he dated a few socialites and survived a plane crash, but I never recall him producing or remixing anything, it seemed like more or less he was one of those people like Paris, Kim Kardashian, Spencer and Heidi, etc... who was famous just because they're famous, with no real reason.

Yes this belongs on the TMZ website rather than a music forum. DJing is playing music, not making it.

I only knew of him as "that guy who survived a plane crash".

Steppin to the AM

I'll drink an A.M. Ale in his honor.

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Obviously you don't know real DJs, but DJ AM was not a real DJ.

Huh?

DJ AM did a lot of musical work with Travis Barker. The mixtape that they put out was really good.

http://www.trvsdjam.com/downloadpage/download_box.html

Similar in style to Girl Talk (mashups), but a little more fun, imo.

Thanks for the link. I have enjoyed what I have listened to so far!

He got to bang Mandy Moore and he died before he got old. God, I envy him.

...only to die of a drug overdose - lame!

i was going to see taking back sunday, chester french, weezer, and blink tomorrow in cleveland but the show is postponed due to dj am's death (he was a good friend of the blink guys)... too bad.

Yeah too bad your concert got postponed.

if every artist cancelled a concert when a nobody dies, no one would give concerts period