Latest articles by Ben Rogerson
Laufey on how a vintage guitar and amp inspired recent single Silver Lining
“I had a full studio day just to myself, and I just wanted to challenge myself to write and kind of be inspired by my surroundings,” she says
Fender Studio is the company’s long-awaited entry-level recording app, and it’s free for all
Cross-platform software “shares DNA” with PreSonus Studio One and includes Fender amp and effect models
Calvin Harris slams claim that his new single Blessings sounds too similar to Chicane's Offshore
“I am defending my copyright and my intellectual property here guys,” Chicane’s Nick Bracegirdle had said
Olivia Rodrigo swears by this $50 Vocal Trainer gizmo to keep her singing voice in shape, but how does it actually work?
It’s all about those Semi-Occluded Vocal Tract (SOVT) exercises
The National’s Matt Berninger on how people react when they find out he’s worked with Taylor Swift
“She manages to get a listener inside a world and feel like they have a confidante and a dear friend who gets them”
Watch Lindsey Buckingham react as he checks out Charli XCX’s Von Dutch video for the first time
Former Fleetwood Mac guitarist and singer confirms that he had “the Brattiest” of summers
Lorde reveals that she used the drums from Radiohead’s Reckoner while she was writing What Was That
The band released the stems of the In Rainbows song back in 2008
How Guy Fletcher and a classic ‘80s synth became Dire Straits’ secret weapon on Brothers In Arms
“Without him there, we would have probably been completely lost"
Watch Peter Gabriel and futurist Ray Hammond debate the impact of the synthesizer back in 1983
“For me it’s something of a dream machine,” says Gabriel. “I always fantasised about something [with] which you could take any real world sound and manipulate it and put it in your music”
Fresh from covering Radiohead, Billie Eilish has now tackled a Coldplay classic
Plus, check out ‘mid-writing process’ versions of the first three songs from her latest album
The guitarist on Michael Jackson’s I Just Can’t Stop Loving You on his “little earworms”
“It’s more of a keyboard song. It’s not guitar music per se,” says Dann Huff
Jack Antonoff on how he channelled the Beatles and Jeff Lynne on Sabrina Carpenter’s Please Please Please
“It feels like just a band in the room,” he says
“I don't even understand it": Daryl Hall can’t get onboard with the concept of yacht rock
“People misjudged us because they couldn't label us,” he says of Hall & Oates
Tommy Emmanuel plays The Beatles and Oasis as he discusses the glaring gap in his musical knowledge
“I can read a chord chart and follow the chords, but I can’t read notes,” he explains
Superbooth 2025: all the latest synth news from Berlin, as it happened
Knob tweakers, assemble!
PinkPantheress explains why her new project, Fancy That, is a mixtape rather than an album
“If I went in thinking it was an album, it probably would have been different in some ways”
"They could barely play”: Trevor Horn on the making of Relax, by Frankie Goes To Hollywood
“We thought that all the record labels would be after them. Nobody wanted them”
Novation’s Bass Station II has officially entered its Swifty era, thanks to a new collaboration
And it’s still tailor-made for beefy low-end sounds
Groove Synthesis announces a more compact and affordable version of its superb 3rd Wave synth
Superbooth 25: “A more accessible entry point to the 3rd Wave sonic universe”
Phase8, Korg’s ‘acoustic synth’, is finally confirmed for release, and it looks and sounds awesome
Superbooth 25: After a couple of years of prototypes, we get now to see the finished product
“Not another multi-effect for your dentist": Polyend’s Mess looks like an FX sequencing powerhouse
Superbooth 25: It promises to be “built for adventurers in sound design”
Hexinverter's analogue drum machine never happened, but Erica Synths' HexDrums is set to put that right
Superbooth 25: It’s infused with Mutant Drum DNA
"Man, this sounds like it's going to be big": Shakira and Wyclef Jean celebrate 20 years of Hips Don’t Lie
“Shakira had a big influence on where she wanted the record to go,” recalled recording engineer Serge Tsai in 2007
