
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

"They could barely play”: Trevor Horn on the making of Relax, by Frankie Goes To Hollywood
By Ben Rogerson published
“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
By Ben Rogerson published
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
By Ben Rogerson published
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
By Ben Rogerson published
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
By Ben Rogerson published
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
By Ben Rogerson published
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
By Ben Rogerson published
“Shakira had a big influence on where she wanted the record to go,” recalled recording engineer Serge Tsai in 2007

Billie Eilish gets the giggles as she covers Radiohead's Creep
By Ben Rogerson published
For Eilish, it seems that singing the song IS a laughing matter…

It turns out there’s a reason why André 3000 turned up at the Met Gala with a grand piano on his back
By Ben Rogerson published
After the flutey New Blue Sun we now have 7 piano sketches

"I think I was in a flow process”: Composing the music for the Oscar-winning animated movie, Flow
By Ben Rogerson published
“I have always been a guy who dreams big dreams. And I always kept in my mind that one of the biggest goals for me in my film career was to have an Oscar”

Doja Cat has some thoughts on fans who obsess over streaming numbers
By Ben Rogerson published
“Take a look in the mirror and ask yourself in the safety of your mind if you are proud of that person or if you even like what you see,” she advises

“That feel is something you can’t teach": Bonnie Raitt on how she developed her slide guitar style
By Ben Rogerson published
“That feel is something you can’t teach - it’s something where I just listened and listened,” she says

Lorde says that she needed to find “just the right amount of dirt” to finish her new single
By Ben Rogerson published
She was working on it with producer Jim-E Stack for almost a year

Super-songwriter Diane Warren on why she prefers to work alone
By Ben Rogerson published
"I’m like, Really? Wow. What did you guys do?”

Sheryl Crow has her say on Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Chappell Roan and Phoebe Bridgers
By Ben Rogerson published
"These women are not just in the studio throwing in a lyric - they play,” she says

Imogen Heap on Taylor Swift's "extremely efficient" songwriting and recording process
By Ben Rogerson published
“By the time she left, we had managed to write the song, produce the song, record the song, chat, meet, have tea, sit by the fire, eat lunch, eat dinner, do an entire record all by ourselves”

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2025 inductees revealed: The White Stripes, Outkast and Soundgarden are in
By Ben Rogerson published
Legendary session musicians Carol Kaye and Nicky Hopkins are also in

How a happy synth accident inspired a US number 1 single for Terence Trent D’Arby
By Ben Rogerson published
“I heard this drone. An engineer, Sean Oliver, he had taken the DX7 keyboard and he had just pushed the pitchbend wheel back and forth”

"I was like, 'Wow'": Porter Robinson only recently discovered that Coldplay used to sound a bit like Radiohead
By Ben Rogerson published
“I found tons of forum debates from 2004 from people saying, you know Radiohead fans being like, ‘Coldplay's trash’”

Why is Serena Williams being bombarded with microphones fired from confetti cannons?
By Ben Rogerson published
In purely literal terms, this might be the biggest mic drop ever

How Yves Jarvis recorded his whole album in Audacity, the free and open-source audio editor
By Ben Rogerson published
“I’ve always used Audacity to arrange and sequence my work from tape, but this time, I didn’t even use any hardware,” he says

Chris Martin does his best Bruno Mars as Rosé joins Coldplay on stage to perform APT in South Korea
By Ben Rogerson published
They enjoyed themselves so much they played it twice

Prince’s Purple Rain follow-up came out of leftfield, but did it derail his career?
By Ben Rogerson published
As Around The World In A Day turns 40, it's time for a reappraisal
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