Latest articles by Ben Rogerson
Mark Ronson on having to come to terms with the fact that he would never be a great guitar player
“I remember thinking, ‘that’s what being a guitarist sounds like. I need to find a new thing’”
The curious case of The Weeknd’s mic distortion, and how his live sound team fixed it
“We came to realize that it was the result of the combination of The Weeknd’s unique vocal timbre and the hyping of compression and high-end,” says front of house engineer Derek Brener
"We just didn’t want Pino to ever stop playing": Miley Cyrus honours legendary bassist Pino Palladino
“If I only had one person to choose to play bass with for the rest of my days, I would choose Pino Palladino,” says Questlove
How Van Halen ended up choosing an unlikely opening band for their 2012 tour
"We have the song Jump and you came up with Celebration - let’s go out and have a party," Roth told bassist Robert 'Kool' Bell
"I found myself in my studio sat down at the keyboard”: Labi Siffre on the origins of his biggest hit
Siffre has issued a cease and desist order to far-right activist Tommy Robinson in a bid to stop him using the song
Herbie Hancock reveals what Harold Rhodes said to him when he saw that he’d modded one of his pianos
But in the end, Hancock convinced him to include I/O in all Rhodes models
Jack Antonoff reveals the two vintage delays that provide the secret sauce on Sabrina Carpenter’s Manchild
“I'm really focusing on how to utilise this stuff to make things feel like they could have only happened in that moment,” he explains
Olivia Dean admits to having initial doubts about her current global hit single
Man I Need is one of the most streamed songs in the world right now
Could IK Multimedia’s "ethical" ReSing software be a gamechanger for AI voice modelling?
Feed it your scratch vocal and it will replace it with an “expressive, professional-quality voice”
30 years after queuing for his autograph, The Killers’ Brandon Flowers performs with Howard Jones
The pair duet on Jones’ ‘80s hits No One Is To Blame and Hide And Seek
Nile Rodgers joins Dua Lipa on stage at Madison Square Garden for a cover of Chic’s signature hit
The star also duetted with Lenny Kravitz over the weekend
Mark Ronson says that Paul McCartney's reputation as the 'poppy guy' in The Beatles is undeserved
“I went to his studio one time and he was literally like step sequencing a Moog keyboard to make the weirdest sounds I've ever heard," he recalls
Synth-pop star Little Boots confirms that she’s now a university lecturer
She’ll still be making music, though
Chappell Roan finally gets to perform her “favourite song” with one of the people who wrote and recorded it
She was joined onstage by Nancy Wilson for her now traditional cover of Heart’s Barracuda
Miley Cyrus reunites two members of Fleetwood Mac on her new single, Secrets
Secrets was written “as a peace offering” to her dad, Billy Ray Cyrus
An exclusive paid-for download version of Taylor Swift’s new album has sparked a high-kicking iTunes revival
But don’t worry - she’s not ‘doing a U2’...
Did Prince’s "humiliating" Rolling Stones experience inspire his later success?
Producer Andrew Watt recalls what Jagger told him when he happened to be wearing a Prince T-shirt in the studio
Back in 1999, Prince offered his opinion on the new generation of DAW-based musicians and producers
“If they didn’t take the time to learn their instrument and their scales and to actually speak the language of music then they can’t play… all they can do is watch,” he argued
Jon Batiste answers the internet’s piano queries and agrees with one potentially controversial musical statement
Watch him explain how you can improve your practice sessions and sense of feel
“I missed a couple of things": Brian May critiques his Last Night of the Proms performance
But he and Roger Taylor still managed to cause quite the fandango
“In the actual song you hear today, the guitars, the riff, the bass, the drums and all the vocals are from those initial takes I did in my bedroom”: Sombr on the making of viral hit Undressed, and his formula for creating "a legendary indie rock song"
“I remember playing the guitar riff and thinking, ‘OK, that is great.’ From there, the song just made sense, it flowed"
Using his signature ‘DAEAD’ tuning, Jacob Collier recorded a 5-string acoustic guitar album in just four days
"I had to work so fast that I couldn’t second-guess anything - I just had to roll with and trust the process," he says
How a teenage Mark Ronson convinced Michael Jackson to write him a bassline so he could make a hit song out of it
Oh, and Sean Lennon was there too, and he ended up playing it to Roberta Flack
