Latest articles by Ben Rogerson
I’ve scoured the Earth for the best Black Friday iPad deal, and this is the one I think musicians should go for
Thanks to a $150 or £100 saving, it’s Air time
A Google Pixel 10 is one of the best Android music making phones you can buy, and it'll cost you loads less than the latest iPhone this Black Friday
A new-for-2025 Google phone at a bargain price, and it has a seriously fun music-making app that Apple fans will never be able to get their hands on
Billie Eilish introduced them to a whole new audience, and now '90s indie band Black Box Recorder are back
After 17 years away, the British band will play a show in London next year
"I thought, 'I can’t play now'": The Brand New Heavies say that Prince came to watch them three times
Oh, and Mark Ronson credits them with changing his musical direction
The producers of ABBA Voyage say that it was "never a format to copy"
“We would hope that whoever comes after us would do something different, find their own idea and motivations"
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
