Southern hip-hop’s influence continues shaping modern music through strategic sampling, with artists like Future, GloRilla and Sexyy Red drawing from classic Southern tracks. Recently, Juicy J noted ...

Since legendary keyboardist Joe Sample returned home to Houston eight years ago, he has reconnected with his musical past. Sample reunited the Jazz Crusaders for a show in 2011, after the band had ...

While there have been modernizations, YouTube’s music streaming service has remained functionally and visually the same since its launch. YouTube Music is now getting its biggest shakeup in years with ...

Every social media app — and apparently music app — eventually turns into the same app. When TikTok launched, everyone thought it was the app that young kids used to film themselves dancing. Quickly, ...

The YouTube Music samples feature is currently in its testing stage and will soon roll out to users. This feature is similar to the YouTube Shorts feature that is present on the video streaming ...

House music being celebrated in new songs from big-time acts like Drake and Beyoncé has turned into a huge conversation as of late, but the fast-paced, drum and hi-hat-riddled genre has always had a ...

Hip-hop has had a strong connection to reggae music since the days of DJ Kool Herc’s summer house parties in the early 1970s. Hip-hop’s foundation was built on elements of the Jamaican sound system ...

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 ...

In the last few years, basically every platform of consequence has made its own take on TikTok's signature scrolling feed of vertical videos. YouTube Music is the latest. Today, the app will get a ...