Sampling has quietly reshaped music over the past five decades. A snare hit here, a vocal yelp there, maybe a drum loop that ...

WhoSampled scans your iPhone's library and reveals the samples that powers the songs on your handset. WhoSampled helps you connect the musical present to the past by highlighting the song snippets ...

The app WhoSampled just released an update that can make anybody a music historian. It now features helpful new technology that can completely digest a song’s samples, remixes and cover history. Read ...

WhoSampled, the service that identifies music samples, recently updated their iOS/Android app to include Shazam-style music recognition. Now when you hear a song playing in a bar or a store, you can ...

If you’re a music fan, here’s a site that you could lose yourself in for hours. With sampling (using clips of other people’s songs as part of a new song) commonplace in modern music, London-based ...

Unpaid royalties have long been a problem in the music industry. Artists, songwriters, and producers miss out on millions due to the misappropriation of funds at the hands of shady labels and music ...

Some samples breathe new life into forgotten classics, while others recontextualize a song's place in contemporary music more ...

Editorial Illustration with Bollywood poster. Bollywood movies are one of India’s most recognizable exports. Extravagant sets, big casts, and dramatic plots are all synonymous with these lavish films, ...

WhoSampled, the user-compiled database that “allows music fans to explore the DNA of their favorite music,” launched an updated version of their mobile app with music recognition technology. As ...

The man with the deep voice and dope shades has found his work reworked onto some of the dopest cuts in Hip-Hop history. “Walk On By” alone is responsible for Biggie’s “Warning,” Tupac’s “Me Against ...

His samples serve as a reminder that basic human rights aren’t that basic for everyone in our “progressively modern” age — that even if we try to pretend to be someone else, as an individual or as a ...