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BROOKLYN, NEW YORK - MAY 05: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood pose backstage during the exclusive launch event of The Rolling Stones new album “Foreign Tongues” at Weylin on May 5, 2026 in Brooklyn, NY. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for UMG)
Andrew Watt says he kept thing loose when he produced the Stones, but also added a surprising synth sub-bass

By Ben Rogerson Published

“This is not loop-based music. It is performance-based music"

Artists
(EDITORS NOTE: A special effects camera filter was used for this image.) Olivia Rodrigo at Daisy Chain Fields Festival 2026 held at Great Park on August 29, 2026 in Irvine, California. (Photo by Christopher Polk/Billboard via Getty Images)
Olivia Rodrigo on how being a "novice" guitarist led to a happy accident when she was writing The Cure

By Ben Rogerson Published

She and her collaborator Dan Nigro have been digging into the song's creation

Artists
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE - SEPTEMBER 22: Ella Langley performs onstage at the 9th Annual Nashville Songwriter Awards at Ryman Auditorium on September 22, 2026 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images)
How a Nashville session legend and a pet kangaroo helped Ella Langley to create Choosin' Texas

By Ben Rogerson Published

“We love that song, but I don’t think I could have ever imagined what’s happening with it right now," says the country star

Artists
The track they tried to hide. Is this the worst Stock Aitken Waterman record ever?

By Daniel Griffiths Published

Get ready for the tall tail of the time that the prodigious producers smelt a rat and made a Living Legend

Producers & Engineers
“It was an absolute balls-up fiasco. It almost ruined me”: Hans Zimmer, Dr Who and the worst charity record of all time

By Daniel Griffiths Published

Threatened with cancellation in the '80s, an unlikely gaggle of famous names came to Dr Who’s rescue. With appalling results

Music Industry
Learn from a techno legend: Kevin Saunderson to give a Roland 909 workshop live from Detroit tomorrow

By Beth Simpson Published

Tutorial will include sequencing, sound shaping, and performance techniques

Drum Machines
LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 20: Taylor Swift performs on stage The BRIT Awards 2013 at The O2, on February 20, 2013 in London, England. (Photo by JM Enternational/Redferns)
How Max Martin and Shellback told Taylor Swift that they were going to turn her ballad into a banger

By Ben Rogerson Published

Looking back, Swift agrees that their changes “ended up being the best thing for it”

Artists
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 29: (FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY) Dr. Dre speaks onstage during 2026 Recording Academy Honors Presented by The Black Music Collective at Fairmont Century Plaza on January 29, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)
Dr Dre has words for those who are against the use of AI in music

By Beth Simpson Published

Jimmy Iovine, meanwhile, believes that it's just that the AI companies have “terrible communication skills”

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Tech
Hot Chip in the studio
"There's no barrier to capturing a performance": Inside Hot Chip's London studio

By Si Truss Published

Al Doyle, Joe Goddard and Alexis Taylor invite us into the band's studio and pick their synth highlights

Studios
Donna Lewis Bei "Rsh Gold Verleihung" In Kiel 010297 . (Photo by Franziska Krug/Getty Images)
How going back to her Korg M1 demo helped Donna Lewis to create one of the biggest US hits of 1996

By Ben Rogerson Published

“I remember trying to rewrite the chorus because it sounded too much like a nursery rhyme. But when I did, it didn’t work, so I kept it the same"

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