The age of recycling in the world of music: Sampling
Music is in an age of recycling, where new sounds incorporate the old, and tradition is repackaged as invention.
There is a growing trend in pop music where artists seem to pluck the strings of nostalgia when curating new bodies of work.
Familiar tunes, familiar voices, echoes of famous songs that came before them.
As we look to the charts right now, and the trajectory of music going forwards, it can be said that we are witnessing the rise of sampling in music.
Music News Blitz’s Isaac James breaks down everything you need to know.
Music opinion: Coachella took ‘2026 is the new 2016’ seriously
Welcome to the desert. Weekend 1 of the hit music festival Coachella took place in Indio, California, from April 10-12, 2026.
The festival is such a global phenomenon that fans tuned into the live stream from home, affectionately nicknaming it “bedchella” or “couchchella.”
Weekend 2 is scheduled for April 17-19, 2026, and will again be livestreamed on Coachella’s official YouTube channel.
This year, the festival has been hailed as the return of 2016, where popular musicians of that era performed, and 2016 fashion trends reappeared, writes Music News Blitz’s Sarah Sharp.