A new beginning for music templates
Looking to build the perfect music news and review website? Meet MUZAK Music News Reviews and Database WordPress Theme, the ultimate WordPress theme designed for music enthusiasts. Inspired by the need for a platform like IMDb but tailored for the music world, MUZAK lets you create a comprehensive database of artists, albums, and discographies. Whether you’re a music blogger, critic, or database curator, this theme has everything you need to showcase your passion.
MUZAK is packed with powerful features, including integration with rating and review plugins, customizable live searches, and the Sonaar audio player, which lets you upload and manage tracks for every album.
Key Features of MUZAK
- Customizable Fields: Add detailed information about artists, albums, and tracks using intuitive custom fields.
- AJAX Live Search: Provide a lightning-fast, mobile-friendly search experience for your users.
- Dark Mode: Offer a visually stunning browsing experience, perfect for mobile and desktop users.
- Pre-Designed Modules: Create eye-catching homepages with drag-and-drop simplicity.
- User Scoring Options: Allow users and editors to rate albums, artists, and more.
- License Key required for updates
Discogs API Integration for Unparalleled Music Metadata
With the Discogs* API integration, MUZAK gives you access to the world’s largest music database. Easily search and pull detailed album and artist metadata, including images, descriptions, band members, tracklists, and websites. Read more about the feature here 👈
Live search and import data for Artist in action:
Live search and import data for Album in action:
Songs post type and Genius API Integration for lyrics and metadata
With the new Songs post type, you can automatically import lyrics and song details directly from Genius when adding tracks, or enter them manually if you prefer. Theme now also includes an All Songs page template, a Songs tab inside Albums, and a Home Songs Slider module on Home to showcase your music beautifully on the frontend.
Modern Design & Multilingual Support
Built on Bootstrap, MUZAK delivers a sleek, app-like aesthetic and fully responsive design for flawless performance on any device. The theme is also compatible with WPML and Loco Translate, making it simple to translate your site into multiple languages. For advanced users, the included Child Theme allows for extensive customization and enhanced functionality.
Core Systems with less external plugins
We use our own systems for User Accounts, Reviews, and Wishlist, drastically reducing our reliance on external plugins. Everything runs within the theme using our own code, allowing for greater flexibility in improvements and customization.
Why Choose MUZAK?
Whether you’re creating a music review website, a fan site, or a professional music database, MUZAK Music News Reviews and Database WordPress Theme is your all-in-one solution. Its powerful features and integrations ensure a seamless user experience, while its flexibility allows you to build a site tailored to your unique needs.
Stay updated with the latest features and improvements in our News section.
* MUZAK Theme uses Discogs API but is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by Discogs. ‘Discogs’ is a trademark of Zink Media, LLC.
Frequently Asked Questions
MUZAK is a WordPress theme built specifically for music databases, artist catalogs, album discographies, music reviews, and music magazines.
Most music themes focus on presenting an artist, band, events, or audio content. MUZAK is designed as a music database first, with dedicated artists, albums, songs, discographies, reviews, ratings, API integrations, and searchable content.
MUZAK integrates with the Discogs API, allowing you to search for artists and albums and import available metadata, images, tracklists, and other music information directly into WordPress.
The dedicated Songs post type integrates with the Genius API, giving you tools to search for songs and retrieve available lyrics and song information.
Reviews and ratings are built directly into MUZAK, so you can let visitors rate and review music without depending on a separate reviews plugin.
MUZAK supports the Sonaar audio player, allowing audio tracks to be added and managed alongside your music content.
The built-in AJAX Live Search lets visitors quickly search through artists, albums, songs, and other content without relying on a separate search plugin.
MUZAK includes many features directly in the theme core, including reviews, ratings, account system, live search, wishlist and dark mode, reducing the number of third-party plugins needed to run a music database.
Its structured post types, taxonomies, artist and album relationships, Discogs API importing, Song lyrics import, and dedicated music database features make MUZAK suitable for building and expanding large music catalogs.
MUZAK is available as a one-time purchase of $139, with no recurring product subscription.
MUZAK Related News
How to Build the “IMDb of Music” with WordPress
New MUZAK Theme Update: Instant Search and Get Data for Artist and Albums
Changelog
1.4 – AUG 2026
- Profilepress plugin not needed anymore. Now theme uses his own Register and Login system
- Site Reviews plugin not needed anymore. Now theme uses his own Reviews system
- Added My Reviews and My Comments tabs on My Account frontend
- Added Recent Reviews Widget for WP Dashboard
- Added new Account System — Settings options page
- Added new core theme Wishlist System
- Removed some unused templates
- Fixed some code issues
1.3 – JUN 2026
- AJAX Live Search and Dark Mode plugins not needed anymore. Now theme uses his own Live Search and Dark Mode
- Optimized code of some core files and page templates
