SAMPLED#2026
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Stories tagged #2026 on Sampled — sound, style, and scenes, all in one place.
Winamp just handed three artists $3,000 a month and a full team — meet the 2026 Creators Program class
Out of 4,000+ applications from 110 countries, Winamp picked Louve, Sorvina and Bleu Nuage. Here is what the program actually gives them, and why this is the artist-development model everybody else stopped funding.
Arturia Rev OCEAN turns any sound into an underwater dream — the reverb producers have been asking for
Released June 25, 2026, Rev OCEAN pairs FDN processing, multi-stage diffusion and three expressive modes to make instant atmosphere for drums, vocals, guitars and synths.
Boy George just re-recorded Karma Chameleon with ethical AI — meet Artist Included, the company betting artists win this round
Founded by Paul "PK" Kemsley and Jeremy Rosen, Artist Included launches with a BMG-partnered reborn Karma Chameleon and a business model built entirely around creator ownership.
Governors Ball 2026: Lorde, Stray Kids and A$AP Rocky cap the loudest lineup since the Flushing Meadows move
Three nights in Queens, June 5–7. K-pop's first Gov Ball headliner, a Clipse reunion set, and a Sunday undercard worth showing up at 1pm for.
Rapper Watch Alert: BunnaB is building the summer one cookout at a time
A new entry in our Rapper Watch series — BunnaB stacks singles, hits Route 29 Pavilion and Myrtle Beach in June, and turns the Ice Cream Summer / Bunna Summa run into a region-by-region rollout.
Drake dropped three albums in one night and the internet still can't agree what happened
ICEMAN, HABIBTI, and MAID OF HONOUR landed together on May 15. Two weeks later, the discourse is louder than the music — which might be exactly the point.
che's Fully Loaded is rage rap's SoundCloud-first power move
The Atlanta teenager surprise-dropped a five-track EP on SoundCloud — anchored by 'Million Dollar Mansion' — and the deep-voiced, self-produced rollout is his clearest 2026 thesis statement yet.