Latest articles by Ben Rogerson
Back in 1999, Prince offered his opinion on the new generation of DAW-based musicians and producers
“If they didn’t take the time to learn their instrument and their scales and to actually speak the language of music then they can’t play… all they can do is watch,” he argued
Jon Batiste answers the internet’s piano queries and agrees with one potentially controversial musical statement
Watch him explain how you can improve your practice sessions and sense of feel
“I missed a couple of things": Brian May critiques his Last Night of the Proms performance
But he and Roger Taylor still managed to cause quite the fandango
“In the actual song you hear today, the guitars, the riff, the bass, the drums and all the vocals are from those initial takes I did in my bedroom”: Sombr on the making of viral hit Undressed, and his formula for creating "a legendary indie rock song"
“I remember playing the guitar riff and thinking, ‘OK, that is great.’ From there, the song just made sense, it flowed"
Using his signature ‘DAEAD’ tuning, Jacob Collier recorded a 5-string acoustic guitar album in just four days
"I had to work so fast that I couldn’t second-guess anything - I just had to roll with and trust the process," he says
How a teenage Mark Ronson convinced Michael Jackson to write him a bassline so he could make a hit song out of it
Oh, and Sean Lennon was there too, and he ended up playing it to Roberta Flack
Bryan Adams explains why the only person to do justice to Summer of '69 was Taylor Swift
“We only had one rehearsal, so she knows that song really well,” he says of their 2018 duet
John Oates explains why there’s no chance of a creative reunion with Daryl Hall
“I'd hate to go out there and play the old hits and not have them sound as vibrant and as punchy and as great as those records,” he says
Olivia Rodrigo is releasing her highly acclaimed Glastonbury set on vinyl
“The collective energy of the band that day was really infectious,” said Rodrigo’s lead guitarist Arianna Powell
Laufey says she’s happy to use voice memo recordings and doesn’t pay much attention to the mics she uses
“I think the phone sounds great sometimes"
MTV VMAs 2025: Doja Cat performs with Kenny G, and an all-star line-up pays tribute to Ozzy Osbourne
Lady Gaga, Ariana Grande and Sabrina Carpenter all won big at last night’s ceremony
Forwards Festival 2025 review: Orbital, Barry Can’t Swim, Olivia Dean, Jorja Smith and more
Nia Archives was drafted in after the US star’s late withdrawal
Prince’s ability to keep time when he was recording drums was remarkable, says his engineer
“He would say ‘OK, that’s so close, cut it one more time,’ and I wouldn’t do it because I physically couldn’t cut a 16th of an inch without chowdering the tape”
How Pino Palladino turned the demo bassline in Miley Cyrus’s End of the World into something "so much better"
"I just thought it would sound the same, but my God," says awestruck producer Shawn Everett
Spotify responds to Apple Music’s new AutoMix feature by turning your playlists into ready-made DJ sets
You now have BPM and key information for all your playlist tracks, too
EDM DJ Gryffin on the moment he learned he’d been duped into performing with a fake Justin Bieber
Dylan Desclos managed to trick his way into The Wynn nightclub in Las Vegas and then got on stage
Calvin Harris shuts down talk of a feud with Miley Cyrus after teasing a new song
Ocean is now being sung by Jessie Reyez, it would seem
Kylie Minogue’s Tension tour keyboard player reveals the compact synth she relies on
Hazel Mills runs her UDO Super 6 through a couple of pedals and Apple MainStage
How George Michael accidentally created the ‘80s smash that’s now been picked up by Taylor Swift
“It ended up, in my mind, being the most original-sounding thing on the album,” he later said
Taylor Swift on how she threw down the creative gauntlet to Max Martin for new album The Life Of A Showgirl
She says that making the whole record with Martin and Shellback "felt like catching lightning in a bottle”
Carlos Santana on what made Jeff Beck a guitar great, and getting into character to cover Michael Jackson
“Jeff Beck took guitar way beyond. His approach was like letting the hamster out of the cage,” he says
Taylor Swift announces new album and hints that Max Martin is back in the producer's chair
A return to pure pop for the world's biggest star?
Eric Clapton pays tribute to Bobby Whitlock, his Derek and the Dominos bandmate, who has died, aged 77
Whitlock also supported Rita Coolidge’s claim that she should have received a writing credit on Layla
