Music software and hardware company Native Instruments announced today that it’s launching a new subscription platform in the US called Sounds.com. Meant for music creators, Sounds.com is a way to ...

Welcome, once again, to SampleRadar, MusicRadar's new weekly giveaway of pro-quality, royalty-free samples. It works like this: we give you links to genre-specific loops, hits and multisamples, then ...

In June 2007, Rihanna reached the No. 1 spot on the Hot 100 for what was then only the second time in her career. “Umbrella,” written and produced by The-Dream and Tricky Stewart, was originally meant ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write for, and about, the up-and-coming musician. Royalty-free sample library and sound effects company Splice and Warner ...

Beta Monkey Music — one of the most popular drum loops companies in the music business — is offering customers free drum loops, some new grooves and a completely redesigned Web site. As part of the ...

Music collaboration tech developer Splice has acquired Indaba Music. Indaba is an online music community of more than a million creators. Indaba’s Founder Dan Zaccagnino and CEO, JJ Rosen, a former ...