Latest articles by Ben Rogerson
Alanis Morissette reflects on how the music industry has changed for women since Jagged Little Pill
“I was kind of crafting my own scaffolding the whole time, and it was cardboard and water,” she says
The story of the classic yacht rock single that Clive Davis rejected but the world fell in love with
"He goes, ‘Yeah… you guys look good, you sound good, but I don’t hear a hit,’ and so that was the end of our chances with Clive Davis," says co-writer and singer Peter Beckett
There's no Glastonbury this year, but this movie is here to show you what it looked and sounded like in 1993
You can also watch more recent Glastonbury sets on the BBC iPlayer
Sombr reflects on being asked to perform in honour of Taylor Swift after she called him "the future"
“I picked two songs, and I suggested them to her and she was like, ‘Perfect.’ So, I was like, ‘OK’”
“I have vocal nodes": Breakout star Sienna Spiro's distinctive singing voice comes at a cost
"I never really had any proper singing lessons growing up… so technically, I'm actually a terrible singer," she says
Olivia Rodrigo on the making of Stupid Song – and an unlikely artistic inspiration
She's also announced a new music festival with an impressive all-women line-up
Rob Thomas explains the genius of Clive Davis and his influence on Santana's Smooth
Even if everybody around him said, ‘I don’t get it,’ he would say, 'You don’t have to get it’”
"He doesn’t know nothing”: Finneas is as confused by Rick Rubin’s production claims as the rest of us
"What I assume he means by that, and I respect this, is similar to what I’ve said before: there are a lot of people that know a lot more than I do"
Charli XCX reflects on the reaction to her 'dancefloor is dead' lyric
“I don’t even know what the genre is. It’s just me and A G Cook and Finn Keane, doing our thing"
Here's why the producer of Ricky Martin's Livin' La Vida Loca made recording history
“It was like, you know, Thomas Edison or something," says Desmond Child. "We made it all the way to number one in a completely digitised format”
Taylor Swift appears to confirm that I Knew It, I Knew You was written, recorded and produced in around eight hours
Swift by name…
Beck says that he was "a little embarrassed" by his debut hit, which had “the most simple slide guitar riff"
He's been breaking down the making of it for Mix With The Masters
Jon Bon Jovi says he’s now “fully recovered” from his vocal cord surgery
"It was longer than I’d ever expected, but it had to be right. We never lost faith”
The MU-1 mic promises to make the much-loved ribbon-and-condenser recording trick way more accessible
It promises to combine a classic dual-mic studio technique into one product
"That's when all the cool stuff starts happening”: Keith Urban on the lost art of the song fade-out
"You could just hear the guitarist do something that was so cool, because typically the session players figure, ‘We're out by now, they're not going to use all this, we're just now playing for playing's sake'"
Songwriter Desmond Child had to fight for Livin' On A Prayer's killer chorus – and for the song itself
“Richie and I knew what we had, and at another writing session we got on our hands and knees, literally, and begged Jon to at least try it”
Singer-songwriter Eloise talks voice notes, vocal harmonies and learning guitar by watching YouTube
“I don't write any lyrics down, because I've always had this rule, which is if it's a good song and you have got your feelings right, you will remember it the next day”
Billy Ray Cyrus on the moment he was inspired to beat his vocal paralysis
“Up until that moment, he had never spoken to me at all. I wasn't even sure if he knew my name. In that moment I thought, ‘He's telling you something’"
Randy Newman playfully accepts Taylor Swift’s praise as they sing You Got A Friend In Me together
“He is the king of making us feel the absolute most and pulling at our heartstrings and making us laugh,” Swift had said
Thomas Bangalter reveals Daft Punk's extreme preparation for the heat of their iconic 2006 Coachella set
“I was one of the robots, but now I’m just a human without any superpowers," he says
They might be Gen-Z's new favourite band, but the chances of a Dire Straits reunion are "nil"
One of their biggest hits is currently going gangbusters on TikTok
How Brian May ended up playing his 'Sword of Power' Red Special on the Masters of the Universe theme
"He shows up and he's carrying two giant boxes of He-Man toys that he still had in his attic from his son," says director Travis Knight
Jennifer Lopez says that she was advised to change a song because it sounded too similar to a Whitney Houston hit
“I was like, ‘But I like my song,’” she recalls
