The art of sampling has been with us for four decades now. In that time, it has been used to a greater or lesser effect to lift iconic or rare snippets of sounds from countless older recordings to ...

The best dance music records are often the ones that seem the most basic. Simple tracks built of little more than a few looped beats, melodies or perfectly-pitched samples, which nonetheless convey ...

While Beyoncé did license a 1998 dance track for her 2022 Renaissance hit, a new lawsuit says she cleared the sample with the wrong person. By Rachel Scharf Beyoncé’s company Parkwood Entertainment is ...