Cover of The Modern Age sampling Queen track (5)
I believe the answer is:
tread
'track' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'cover of the modern age sampling queen' is the wordplay.
'cover of' suggests removing the centre (only the letters which cover the word).
'modern age' becomes 'ad' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'sampling' indicates putting letters inside.
'queen' becomes 'r' (abbreviation for regina, e.g. in ER ).
'the' with its middle taken out is 'te'.
'te'+'ad'='tead'
'tead' going around 'r' is 'TREAD'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for tread that I've seen before include "Staircase component" , "between the car and the road" , "Press (grapes by foot)" , "dance" , "Walk or step like pattern on tyre" .)