Latest articles by Ben Rogerson
How Oasis brought Noel and Liam’s touring crews together for their triumphant Live ‘25 reunion
“When a band the size of Oasis splits, it generates its own touring entities and reintegrating that is always going to be an interesting exercise”
Singer-songwriter Matt Maltese says that he doesn’t know how one of his songs ended up on Rosalía’s new album
The first time he heard the finished version was on the day the album came out
Billie Eilish wraps her Hit Me Hard and Soft tour… then immediately confirms the release date for her 3D film
It’s coming to cinemas on 20 March 2026
Jellybean Johnson, drummer with Prince associates The Time, has died, aged 69
“Bean was a consummate musician,” said The Time frontman Morris Day. “All he ever wanted to do was play and talk music”
Jimmy Jam says that Prince’s LM-1 association influenced Jam and Lewis’s decision to switch to a Roland TR-808
“We were like, ‘no, no, we're going to do something totally different, you know'"
Popumusic’s PartyStudio is “the world’s first wireless MIDI synthesizer speaker”
Come on in, take your coat off, have a drink and pull up a MIDI keyboard
Spotify expands its song credits and previews a SongDNA feature that reveals samples and cover versions
The popular WhoSampled website is now part of Spotify
“Dua sings everything”: Dua Lipa’s live engineer reveals how he adds the “pop shine” to her vocals
“It allows me to maintain that precision, that fidelity on a vocal”
"Anthony sounds old": Rick Rubin's unusual mix feedback on 2006's Stadium Arcadium
“No one's ever said like, you know, ‘turn down the age knob’, you know what I mean? And so you get this challenge to try to come up with a solution to something"
“One of the greatest electronic music songs of all time”: Disclosure officially release their edit of a ‘90s club classic
It was first heard during the band’s 2024 Glastonbury set
Coldplay’s live engineers reveal the lengths they go to to record every show on the band’s Music of the Spheres tour
There are still at least 138 dates to go
"I sort of felt like I was squeezing blood from a stone”: Charli XCX reveals her post-Brat creative comedown
“I had this feeling that I wouldn’t be able to make music anymore," she says
The "hysterical" songwriting sessions with Sabrina Carpenter that propelled Amy Allen to four Grammy nominations
“Being a part of every song on Short N’ Sweet and Man’s Best Friend has changed my entire relationship with music,” she says
"It made me cry”: Charli XCX on how she ended up collaborating with the Velvet Underground’s John Cale
House was released on Monday 10 November
Fine Young Cannibals confirm that She Drives Me Crazy was recorded at Paisley Park using Prince’s gear
Its snare sound went on to inspire Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff on a song from the 1989 album
Shortly before he died, Warren Zevon gave David Letterman a guitar, and it just went “back to work”
The Killers covered Lawyers, Guns and Money as part of Zevon’s induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
“I had a White Stripes fan account when I was 13”: Olivia Rodrigo and Feist honour The White Stripes
Jack White tells young artists to "get your hands dirty and drop the screens"
Stevie sings, Flea slaps and Beck blows on his harmonica: Sly Stone just got an all-star tribute
Questlove, Jennifer Hudson and Maxwell were also involved
"OK, let’s have some backstory”: The group songwriting sessions that yielded Lily Allen’s West End Girl
“It felt like days I had as a teenager in a band, writing live in the room,” says collaborator Violet Skies
Drake’s live sound engineer on why he has to be at the top of his game from first song to last
“I cater my mix to whatever the music is, so it’s a very dynamic show,” says Demetrius Moore
“Hell if I know": Lindsey Buckingham claims not to know if Fleetwood Mac have played Glastonbury
Could that be a subtle indication that plans are afoot, or are we reading too much into it?
Boy Meets Girl on how having one song rejected led to them writing Whitney Houston’s biggest ‘80s hit
They even ended up having a hit of their own with the song that Clive Davis didn’t want Whitney to record
Olivia Dean on writing Man I Need and the Michael Jackson hit that helped to inspire it
“I just remember driving to and from the studio and I just played it again and again. And I was like, ‘OK, well if I can listen to this again and again, I think other people might want to”
