Ben Rogerson
I’m the Deputy Editor of MusicRadar, having worked on the site since its launch in 2007. I previously spent eight years working on our sister magazine, Computer Music. I’ve been playing the piano, gigging in bands and failing to finish tracks at home for more than 30 years, 24 of which I’ve also spent writing about music and the ever-changing technology used to make it.
Latest articles by Ben Rogerson

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"The way Control sounds is an accident because we didn’t know what we were doing"

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“You’re never more of a musician than you are a human being”

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A representative previously said that "nothing was added, nothing was edited”

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Looking back, Swift agrees that their changes “ended up being the best thing for it”

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She's been speaking to director Cameron Crowe about her latest album, You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love

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Her new album, Bass Persuades, will be released on 18 September

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Synths, a drum machine, effects and more

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There are some obvious downsides, but the good news is that you’ll have no trouble getting it up and down stairs

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Dale Davis is leading the star's former band on a tour to celebrate the album's 20th anniversary

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"She told me that by 23 she wanted to be as big as Madonna and I was going, ‘Yeah, right, good luck with that…'"

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The prototype of this spiritual successor to the Creative Prodikeys is about to go on show, and it’s heading for production

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“I remember trying to rewrite the chorus because it sounded too much like a nursery rhyme. But when I did, it didn’t work, so I kept it the same"

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A longtime fan of the Boss RC Loop Stations, she was uploading live looped performance videos as early as 2007

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Brandon Flowers says that every major label initially said no to Mr Brightside

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808-featuring cuts from boundary-pushing artists, from Kraftwerk and Marvin Gaye to Aphex Twin and New Order

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He died at home last month, his family and friends have confirmed in a statement

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“I've heard these arrangements in my head and I've been saving them for this," he explained

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Relive the early days of software instruments, or experience what they were like for the first time

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"We didn't get that one," he says

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Hoffs has just announced her first album of new material since 2012

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He also co-produced Fine Young Cannibals’ She Drives Me Crazy, and was responsible for its famous snare sound

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“I was just sitting there by myself, going, you can't get mad at yourself, because it's gone. There's nothing you could do”

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"I was like, ‘Man, I don’t know where you thought of this stuff – it’s brilliant'"
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