Latest articles by Ben Rogerson
How Janet Jackson and Jam & Lewis made Control, the classic album that's just turned 40
“We were like, let's make a record like we're making it for a rock and roller or a rap artist. Let's make the beats super hard"
Alex Honnold reveals just how much Tool he listened to during his free climb of the Taipei 101 skyscraper
“I just know how long the songs are,” says Honnold. “So it gives you a sense of if you’re going fast or slow”
“I’m just a piano tuner, man”: Could Tuner be the audiology thriller we never knew we needed?
A perfect pitch for a movie?
Anderson .Paak on how the death of a music legend inspired Dang!, a 2016 pop-rap masterpiece
“He sat with it for like, a couple weeks and sent it back,” he says of Miller’s contribution. “He had his verse. He had put horns on it, and that's when I realised, ‘Oh, he's like, a producer, too. He's a real musician’”
Timothée Chalamet says that he had to self-fund his Bob Dylan musical performances on Saturday Night Live
The actor ended up performing three Bob Dylan songs while promoting A Complete Unknown, and says that he "refused to take no for an answer"
Bruno Mars and Rosé deliver a hard rock version of APT at the Grammy Awards
The song was inspired by a Korean drinking game
Justin Bieber played an ‘80s Yamaha electric guitar and an Akai MPC Live III in his underwear at the Grammys
He kept his socks on for Yukon
The making of Zara Larsson's 2015 hit, Lush Life, and the original version you might never have heard
"Looking back now I’m very happy that the change happened,” songwriter Linnea Södahl would later recall
PinkPantheress is so Sincere as she joins MJ Cole on a new version of a UK Garage classic
The track was originally made using an Atari ST and Akai MPC3000XL and released back in 1998
Zara Larsson was worried that her remix version of Stateside alongside PinkPantheress was being sidelined
Instead, the song is racing up the streaming charts and the video is pulling in the viewers
“Experienced producers might feel uneasy about the focus being put so heavily on AI and the Session Players, but it’s still an instant recommendation”: Apple Logic Pro for Mac 12 and Logic Pro for iPad 3 review
The Apple Creator Studio bundle is here, and that means new versions of the company’s classic DAW
NAMM 2026: rolling news from the world's biggest music-making gear show
All the hottest new guitars, synths, drums and other gear from Anaheim 2026
40 years after the SK-1, Casio is making waves with another fun-looking sampler
NAMM 2026: Handheld device is attracting plenty of attention on the show floor
Kurzweil’s performer-focused SP8 looks like a bomb-proof stage piano that’s also a powerful synth
NAMM 2026: It looks like it covers just about every sonic eventuality
“A seamless start-to-finish creative workflow”: LANDR announces new “ethical” AI music-making assistants for songwriting and production, but will using them leave you feeling empty inside?
NAMM 2026: Blueprints and Layers can do so much that you might wonder what you’re bringing to the party
Champagne Symphony Nova? Apogee’s latest audio interface is fizzing with ARM-based DSP
NAMM 2026: Where were you when we were getting high-gain mic preamps and realtime processing on every channel?
Roland’s Go:Mixer Studio could be the perfect portable mixer and audio/MIDI interface for your iOS devices,
NAMM 2026: With plenty of I/O and built-in effects, it covers a lot of bases
I can go for that: Roland releases an official plugin version of the CR-78 drum machine
NAMM 2026: You’ve heard it on hits by Phil Collins and Hall & Oates
"I didn't like the song - I still don't": Producer David Foster says he turned down My Heart Will Go On
"If it ever gets around to Céline, it's, ‘Oh, I love that Titanic song.' Then I have to say, ‘Well, I didn't produce that'"
Best synthesizers 2026: Top analogue, digital, mono and polysynths
From mini monosynths, through to mighty polyphonic workstations, our experts have hand-picked hardware synth recommendations for every budget
Richard Marx says he no longer cares about being labelled a balladeer rather than a rocker
“It took a while for me to look at myself and go, ‘Really, dude? Just relax, just chill’”
Producer Ryan Tedder on the classic '00s drum sound and Omnisphere preset he used in Tate McRae's Greedy
“I used to do these beats all the time because I was signed to Tim for two years,” he explains
Apple explains its use of AI in Logic Pro, and why MIDI is still the bedrock of its Session Players
The company's flagship DAW is about to get more AI-powered tools, but where does it all stop?
