Latest articles by Ben Rogerson
"If you want a pair of low-latency headphones for DJing or instrument monitoring, the Studio Max 2 ticks all the necessary boxes and a few more besides": OneOdio Studio Max 2 headphones review
High-quality audio without any discernible delay?
Superbooth 2026: all the latest synth news from Berlin - LIVE!
Knob tweakers, assemble! Europe's most exciting synth showcase is upon us
"Overall performance is high enough to make you wonder if it’s really worth spending any more": Soundcore Space 2 headphones review
Soundcore's latest pair of over-ear cans promises everything you need in a pair of day-to-day headphones at a price that's lower than you'd expect
InMusic confirms Native Instruments acquisition, bringing it under the same ownership as Moog and Akai Pro
NI had been searching for a buyer after facing insolvency proceedings
Best DAWs 2026: The best digital audio workstations for PC and Mac
My expert pick of music production software packages for every budget and application - tested and rated
Project Lydia, Roland’s neural sampling stompbox, moves a step closer to becoming a finished product
Next-gen pedal enables you to transform an audio signal into something that sounds completely different
Kiviak Instruments promises to bring the old-school sampling fun for less with the cut-price WoFi LE
Bye bye proper piano-style mini keys – hello €299 price tag
How Linda Perry channelled Gwen Stefani’s negative energy into her explosive debut single
“I'm like going, ‘What is this girl waiting for?’ You know, like, what is the deal?”
How Johnny Rzeznik wrote Goo Goo Dolls' Iris, which has become the soundtrack to '90s nostalgia
Written for a '90s movie soundtrack, the song was later covered by Taylor Swift and has gone on to become a social media sensation
First Madonna, now Stevie Nicks: Sabrina Carpenter duets with another music legend
She appeared alongside the Fleetwood Mac star to sing a classic from 1975
Taylor Swift explains the songwriting trick that she and Jack Antonoff have used multiple times
“It's something that I feel is kind of one of our very special things that happens when we're in a room together,” says Antonoff. “We kind of egg each other on”
Jack Antonoff says he has no problem with not being involved on Taylor Swift’s latest album, The Life Of A Showgirl
He suggests that it was a “weird miracle” that the two of them had such a long run together
Is Beyonce about to release a rock album with a guest appearance from Stevie Nicks?
Can you handle this?
"It will always be my favourite”: Howard Jones takes you on a tour of the synth he’s owned since 1983
“The way it spits out those notes is incredible,” he says. “The attack… I just miss that on modern keyboards”
“I hired all the musicians and the engineers, and pretty much made the record”: Patrick Leonard on Madonna’s Like a Prayer
"I haven’t listened to anybody’s records… I haven’t listened to any new music in almost 30 years," he says
PinkPantheress on her lightbulb MIDI keyboard moment, and her whirlwind music production journey
"It's sampling, but in terms of what I was doing, I was being quite low-lift with it,” she says of her early music-making efforts
"The greatest recording ever made”: Jack Antonoff on the crazy genius of his favourite Beatles song
"There's nothing like it. There never has or never will be.”
“He thought someone was winding him up": How Rod Temperton ended up writing songs for Michael Jackson
Barry Blue recalls the moment Temperton got the call to go and work on the album that would become Off The Wall
Billie Eilish explains why her brother Finneas had become a "Rapunzel" figure in her touring band
“Finneas and I thought it would be an underrated song. It was one of my favorites, but I was like, ‘This isn’t gonna be the hit"
Prince’s first wife Mayte Garcia has her say on the cancelled Netflix documentary about him
“Mostly I think it should be his music and what a genius he was because he wasn't normal,” she says
How EMF went to No 1 in the US with their debut single, which came with a monster guitar riff
“The guitar riff goes from blues mode to flamenco mode, like the two conflicting sides of my life”
Bruce Hornsby explains why a classic Dire Straits song is a “kindred spirit” to his biggest hit
He also reveals which hip-hop interpolation of The Way It Is he likes the best
Vanessa Carlton explains how her surprise Coachella performance of her biggest hit was almost blown off course
Carlton also says that she went through a "bad period" with the song – "it was like a burden to bear"
