Latest articles by Ben Rogerson
"I can’t find the hook. I can’t find the chorus”: Barry Manilow says that songwriting has changed
“Young people don’t write the way I was trained to write,” he believes
“I got to know her music pretty well”: Neil Finn on how his unlikely duet with Dua Lipa came about
“My two grandsons were dancing to that music last summer,” says the Crowded House frontman
The vocals on Billie Eilish’s Birds Of A Feather are out of tune, says this musician, and he thinks he knows why
“I promise this is not going to be a ‘Billie Eilish can’t sing’ video,” says Noah Forbes, but he does have a theory
Natasha Bedingfield on how she made the 2004 hit that became a viral sensation 20 years later
“We sang the ‘Staring, at the blank page...’ [section] about 100 times!”
"Are you an idiot?”: Haim respond to those who say they don't play their instruments live
“If we use one synth or one poppy thing they’re like, ‘They’re a pop band’”
David Lynch’s collection of studio gear is up for auction, and it includes a classic ‘80s sampler
If you’re hoping for a bargain, though, we suspect you’ll be disappointed
"I could sing into the stratosphere”: Daryl Hall reflects on how his vocals have changed
“It came from wisdom and experience. And a few whiskeys, too"
“I wanted to call it Taylor’s Version”: John Fogerty has re-recorded 20 of his greatest songs
Get ready for The Creedence Clearwater Revival revival...
The Last Of Us season 2 made a big impact on budding guitarists, new tab data suggests
Ultimate Guitar reports huge rises in views of Last Of Us-related tab
Get a genuine taste of old-school tape recording with We Are Rewind's new cassette boombox
Bust out your old C90s, because there’s a new portable hi-fi system on the way that looks a lot like the ones we grew up with
Logic Pro updated for Mac and iPad: Stem Splitter gets better, and say hello to Flashback Capture
Plus, Logic Pro for iPad now has Learn MIDI for easy assignment of hardware controllers
Miley Cyrus explains her distinctive singing voice and why it’s preventing her from touring
"It's like running a marathon with ankle weights on," she says
Calvin Harris reveals the unconventional method he used to record the guitar riff on new single, Blessings
“I bought this guitar which was the guy’s favourite guitar, apparently,” he says of his recently acquired Martin dreadnought
ABBA pay tribute to sound engineer Michael B Tretow, their ‘fifth member’, who has died aged 80
“His importance for ABBA cannot be overestimated,” says Björn Ulvaeus
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”
