Nashville producer Luke Laird hopes to inspire new songwriters with the samples in his Splice pack. Sam Hunt’s “Hard to Forget,” the fourth single from his sophomore studio album Southside, opens with ...

Do you keep hearing people talk about sampling rate in music? But aren’t certain what that actually is?? Well, friend, you’ve come to the right place. On a fundamental level, sampling rate is a result ...

After Pop Smoke's tragic death in 2020, many wondered what would become of New York drill, and many naysayers claimed it died with him. Over the next year, several booming voices would knock at that ...

Ambient music can feel left-field and unfamiliar. It often abandons the tropes people use to define music in the first place—beats, hooks, vocals, or even a time signature (though to make it more ...

DRUMS WEEK 2025: Despite being much maligned, the 80s were an incredibly interesting and vibrant time musically speaking. The dust was beginning to settle on the punk phenomenon, and that can-do ...

"Since the dawn of the sampling era, there's been endless debate about the validity of music that contains samples," Mark Ronson told an audience at a TED conference in Vancouver earlier this year. He ...

Oregon men’s basketball (19-8, 8-8 Big Ten) picked up its third-straight win in a nail biting, 80-78 victory over the Iowa Hawkeyes (14-12,... Spinning, speeding up, warping, transforming, ...

Legal and financial limitations have put a damper on a musical tool that once served as an important way for rappers to connect with musical and social history. Some of the consequences for rap music ...

Music-creation software company Output just launched an AI tool that generates free sample packs based on text prompts. These packs are royalty-free and include 30 samples that can be used in the ...

The practice of music sampling, which is the integration of pre-recorded sounds into new musical gestures, experienced a golden, unregulated age in the late 1980s that is almost unimaginable today.

GeekWire chronicles the Pacific Northwest startup scene. Sign up for our weekly startup newsletter, and check out the GeekWire funding tracker and VC directory. by Kurt Schlosser on Mar 30, 2024 at ...