Latest articles by Ben Rogerson
Eurovision Song Contest boss explains why Finland’s violinist is playing live, while others are miming
“It’s very much a ‘nice to have’ and we’re happy to do it where we can,” says Martin Green
Paul McCartney suggests that Bob Dylan could think a little more about his audience at his shows
“I get it if he doesn't want to do Mr Tambourine Man. Maybe he's fed up with that. But I would like to hear it. And I've paid”
Phil Collins says that he gave away his Roland CR-78 then had to ask for it back
“It was very basic. It was really a cocktail drum machine, you know, for people that play piano in bars”
Alicia Keys celebrates 25 years of her debut album, which featured a notable cover of a Prince b-side
“I’ll just never forget the way that landed on me when I first heard it, because he's playing the piano and he's just stomping his foot on the floor”
Teddy Riley on how he sampled a single bar of a Bill Withers song and turned it into an R&B smash
“That's the grits, right there. So I had to turn it into grits and eggs"
"If you want a pair of low-latency headphones for DJing or instrument monitoring, the Studio Max 2 ticks all the necessary boxes and a few more besides": OneOdio Studio Max 2 headphones review
High-quality audio without any discernible delay?
Superbooth 2026: all the latest synth news from Berlin - LIVE!
Knob tweakers, assemble! Europe's most exciting synth showcase is upon us
"Overall performance is high enough to make you wonder if it’s really worth spending any more": Soundcore Space 2 headphones review
Soundcore's latest pair of over-ear cans promises everything you need in a pair of day-to-day headphones at a price that's lower than you'd expect
InMusic confirms Native Instruments acquisition, bringing it under the same ownership as Moog and Akai Pro
NI had been searching for a buyer after facing insolvency proceedings
Best DAWs 2026: The best digital audio workstations for PC and Mac
My expert pick of music production software packages for every budget and application - tested and rated
Project Lydia, Roland’s neural sampling stompbox, moves a step closer to becoming a finished product
Next-gen pedal enables you to transform an audio signal into something that sounds completely different
Kiviak Instruments promises to bring the old-school sampling fun for less with the cut-price WoFi LE
Bye bye proper piano-style mini keys – hello €299 price tag
How Linda Perry channelled Gwen Stefani’s negative energy into her explosive debut single
“I'm like going, ‘What is this girl waiting for?’ You know, like, what is the deal?”
How Johnny Rzeznik wrote Goo Goo Dolls' Iris, which has become the soundtrack to '90s nostalgia
Written for a '90s movie soundtrack, the song was later covered by Taylor Swift and has gone on to become a social media sensation
First Madonna, now Stevie Nicks: Sabrina Carpenter duets with another music legend
She appeared alongside the Fleetwood Mac star to sing a classic from 1975
Taylor Swift explains the songwriting trick that she and Jack Antonoff have used multiple times
“It's something that I feel is kind of one of our very special things that happens when we're in a room together,” says Antonoff. “We kind of egg each other on”
Jack Antonoff says he has no problem with not being involved on Taylor Swift’s latest album, The Life Of A Showgirl
He suggests that it was a “weird miracle” that the two of them had such a long run together
Is Beyonce about to release a rock album with a guest appearance from Stevie Nicks?
Can you handle this?
"It will always be my favourite”: Howard Jones takes you on a tour of the synth he’s owned since 1983
“The way it spits out those notes is incredible,” he says. “The attack… I just miss that on modern keyboards”
“I hired all the musicians and the engineers, and pretty much made the record”: Patrick Leonard on Madonna’s Like a Prayer
"I haven’t listened to anybody’s records… I haven’t listened to any new music in almost 30 years," he says
PinkPantheress on her lightbulb MIDI keyboard moment, and her whirlwind music production journey
"It's sampling, but in terms of what I was doing, I was being quite low-lift with it,” she says of her early music-making efforts
"The greatest recording ever made”: Jack Antonoff on the crazy genius of his favourite Beatles song
"There's nothing like it. There never has or never will be.”
“He thought someone was winding him up": How Rod Temperton ended up writing songs for Michael Jackson
Barry Blue recalls the moment Temperton got the call to go and work on the album that would become Off The Wall
