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How Charlie Puth used jazz harmony to “pull off something pretty spectacular” at the Super Bowl
By Ben Rogerson published
“I have the whole arrangement in my head," said Puth in an interview prior to the performance. "I musically know where I’m going with it”

Chris Lake said yes to a Taylor Swift remix before he'd even heard the stems - but then had to make it
By Ben Rogerson published
“I want to nail this so badly," he says in a behind-the-scenes video. "I want this to, like, blow people's socks off, you know?”

“Digs deep into his emergence as a prototypical punk rocker”: Billy Idol doc to be released next week
By Will Simpson published
Plus, Idol to perform acoustic sets at LA and New York premieres

“Know you’re about to have the time of your lives”: Pitbull fans will attempt to break a world record in July
By Will Simpson published
A bald attempt to generate publicity and drum up ticket sales, you might say

Michael Stipe returns to Springfield to sing a rewritten version of one of REM's biggest hits
By Will Simpson published
It’s his second appearance on the show

How the gift of a divisive Rolling Stones album scuppered the chance of a collaboration between Nile Rodgers and John Mayer
By Ben Rogerson published
Rodgers believes that the 1967 record in question is "the most underrated rock and roll album of all time”

Producer Mike Sabath on starting Raye’s “outrageous” second studio album at an Airbnb
By Ben Rogerson published
“Mark Ronson DM’d me. He was like, ‘Nice.’ And I was like, ‘yeah!’”

Tributes paid to Billy Steinberg, one of the defining songwriters of the '80s and '90s, who has died
By Will Simpson published
A “pure genius”, says Cyndi Lauper
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