Ben Rogerson

"It will always be my favourite”: Howard Jones takes you on a tour of the synth he’s owned since 1983

By Ben Rogerson published 12 February 26

“The way it spits out those notes is incredible,” he says. “The attack… I just miss that on modern keyboards”

Tony Banks says that virtuoso technique was never his priority, but avoiding "lazy" chord progressions was

By Ben Rogerson published 10 February 26

As for the chances of a Genesis reunion: "don't hold your breath"

James Taylor explains how he had to tell Carole King that he’d recorded one of her greatest songs before she did

By Ben Rogerson published 9 February 26

“I was sure I knew the song already because it was such a classic immediately,” he says. “I literally ran to find my guitar so I could play it”

How Charlie Puth used manifestation and Melodyne to get Kenny G on his new single

By Ben Rogerson published 9 February 26

And in a further twist, they’ve just performed the US National Anthem together at the Super Bowl

How Janet Jackson and Jam & Lewis made Control, the classic album that's just turned 40

By Ben Rogerson published 6 February 26

“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

By Ben Rogerson published 5 February 26

“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?

By Ben Rogerson published 4 February 26

A perfect pitch for a movie?

Anderson .Paak on how the death of a music legend inspired Dang!, a 2016 pop-rap masterpiece

By Ben Rogerson published 4 February 26

“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

By Ben Rogerson published 3 February 26

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

By Ben Rogerson published 2 February 26

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

By Ben Rogerson published 2 February 26

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

By Ben Rogerson published 30 January 26

"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

By Ben Rogerson published 30 January 26

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

By Ben Rogerson published 28 January 26

Instead, the song is racing up the streaming charts and the video is pulling in the viewers

NAMM 2026: rolling news from the world's biggest music-making gear show

By Andy Price last updated 25 January 26

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

By Ben Rogerson published 23 January 26

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

By Ben Rogerson published 23 January 26

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?

By Ben Rogerson published 22 January 26

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

By Ben Rogerson published 22 January 26

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,

By Ben Rogerson published 21 January 26

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

By Ben Rogerson published 21 January 26

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

By Ben Rogerson published 20 January 26

"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'"

Richard Marx says he no longer cares about being labelled a balladeer rather than a rocker

By Ben Rogerson published 19 January 26

“It took a while for me to look at myself and go, ‘Really, dude? Just relax, just chill’”