Latest articles by Ben Rogerson
Super-songwriter Diane Warren on why she prefers to work alone
"I’m like, Really? Wow. What did you guys do?”
Imogen Heap on Taylor Swift's "extremely efficient" songwriting and recording process
“By the time she left, we had managed to write the song, produce the song, record the song, chat, meet, have tea, sit by the fire, eat lunch, eat dinner, do an entire record all by ourselves”
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2025 inductees revealed: The White Stripes, Outkast and Soundgarden are in
Legendary session musicians Carol Kaye and Nicky Hopkins are also in
How a happy synth accident inspired a US number 1 single for Terence Trent D’Arby
“I heard this drone. An engineer, Sean Oliver, he had taken the DX7 keyboard and he had just pushed the pitchbend wheel back and forth”
"I was like, 'Wow'": Porter Robinson only recently discovered that Coldplay used to sound a bit like Radiohead
“I found tons of forum debates from 2004 from people saying, you know Radiohead fans being like, ‘Coldplay's trash’”
Why is Serena Williams being bombarded with microphones fired from confetti cannons?
In purely literal terms, this might be the biggest mic drop ever
How Yves Jarvis recorded his whole album in Audacity, the free and open-source audio editor
“I’ve always used Audacity to arrange and sequence my work from tape, but this time, I didn’t even use any hardware,” he says
Chris Martin does his best Bruno Mars as Rosé joins Coldplay on stage to perform APT in South Korea
They enjoyed themselves so much they played it twice
Prince’s Purple Rain follow-up came out of leftfield, but did it derail his career?
As Around The World In A Day turns 40, it's time for a reappraisal
Lady Gaga apologises to fans as she falls victim to a mic malfunction at Coachella
She overcame the technical problem to deliver another stunning performance
“They didn’t like his bikini underwear”: Prince’s support sets for the The Rolling Stones remembered
“Prince got freaked and cut the set short. The rock stations reported that we got booed off the stage, but that wasn’t true,” he says
Elton John and Brandi Carlile are reviving the lost art of the long song intro
“No one starts an album like that anymore!” says Carlile
“The verse tricks you": Charli XCX’s Brat collaborator Jon Shave on creating Sympathy Is A Knife
"With Brat, Charli had put so much thought into it before we even got in the studio," he says
Songwriter Eg White on how Adele took some “very boring chords” and turned them into an “explosive” hit
Why working with the star on 2008’s Chasing Pavements led White to question some of his own creative instincts
Billie Eilish reveals what she had to do to become “looser and jazzier” with her vocal delivery
“My voice has gotten so much better and stronger and like I just can play in a way that I never have been able to before,” she confirms
Laufey on what Gen Z can teach the rest of us about how to appreciate music
On her friendships with Olivia Rodrigo and Beabadoobee, she says: “I could easily find a person that listens to all three of us, even though we’re so extremely different”
Mustard will be headlining at Coachella tonight with a very exclusive Native Instruments Maschine MK3
Only two of each have been made, and you could win the others
Bon Iver takes to the streets of New York to play people his new album… and nobody knows who he is
“YouTube lo-fi beat right now, but hey, it might go somewhere,” says one listener
Sheryl Crow sings Kelly Clarkson’s praises after watching her cover her breakthrough ‘90s hit
“Good grief Kelly Clarkson could sing the damn phone book,” says Crow
NI's Kontrol S MK3 MIDI keyboards just added several features that DAWless music producers have been asking for
You now have an arpeggiator in standalone mode and you can use the USB and 5-pin MIDI ports simultaneously
“He always had this contemptuous smirk on his face”: White Lotus creator Mike White on the show’s composer
“I just don’t think he respected me,” says White when discussing Cristobal Tapia de Veer. “He wants people to know that he’s edgy and dark and I’m, I don’t know, like, I watch reality TV”
e-instruments’ Slower is the laidback software instrument that could put your music on the fast track to success
A tape-based tone generator that features a carefully curated collection of half-speed samples
Clairo says it was Charli XCX who convinced her to perform one of her most popular songs again
“We played a few shows, and she told me she watched my set the day before. But she was like, ‘Where’s ‘Sofia?’”
