Latest articles by Ben Rogerson
Fine Young Cannibals confirm that She Drives Me Crazy was recorded at Paisley Park using Prince’s gear
Its snare sound went on to inspire Taylor Swift and Jack Antonoff on a song from the 1989 album
Shortly before he died, Warren Zevon gave David Letterman a guitar, and it just went “back to work”
The Killers covered Lawyers, Guns and Money as part of Zevon’s induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
“I had a White Stripes fan account when I was 13”: Olivia Rodrigo and Feist honour The White Stripes
Jack White tells young artists to "get your hands dirty and drop the screens"
Stevie sings, Flea slaps and Beck blows on his harmonica: Sly Stone just got an all-star tribute
Questlove, Jennifer Hudson and Maxwell were also involved
Drake’s live sound engineer on why he has to be at the top of his game from first song to last
“I cater my mix to whatever the music is, so it’s a very dynamic show,” says Demetrius Moore
“Hell if I know": Lindsey Buckingham claims not to know if Fleetwood Mac have played Glastonbury
Could that be a subtle indication that plans are afoot, or are we reading too much into it?
Boy Meets Girl on how having one song rejected led to them writing Whitney Houston’s biggest ‘80s hit
They even ended up having a hit of their own with the song that Clive Davis didn’t want Whitney to record
Olivia Dean on writing Man I Need and the Michael Jackson hit that helped to inspire it
“I just remember driving to and from the studio and I just played it again and again. And I was like, ‘OK, well if I can listen to this again and again, I think other people might want to”
Lily Allen says that being invited on stage by a Gen-Z star played a big part in her musical comeback
“I was writing pretty consistently throughout the last four years, but I just didn’t think it was any good,” she says of her absence
"I'm a maximalist": Raye breaks down the head-spinning vocal arrangement in Where Is My Husband!
She also explains why she might be set to make more tweaks to the mix before the song appears on her album
When Steven Spielberg heard the Jaws theme for the first time he thought it was a joke
Pretty soon, though, the director realised that composer John Williams had "found a signature for the entire movie”
When Rick Rubin and Eric Clapton got to hear D’Angelo’s Voodoo album before it was released, they were blown away
“I can’t take much more. Is it all like this?”, said Clapton
How Prince embraced The Beatles and recorded one of the most vulnerable ballads of his career
“He’d moved past the pop simplicity of Purple Rain - this was Gershwin-esque," says drummer Bobby Z
"It saves us 900 hours digging through crates”: Justice on why they gave up sampling
“Sampling the traditional way gets frustrating fast: bad tuning, rigid tempos, weird textures that don’t bend,” says Xavier de Rosnay
Apple announces its new M5 chip and puts it in the MacBook Pro 14-inch, iPad Pro and Vision Pro headset
All the new hardware is available to pre-order now
Beyoncé, Lauryn Hill, Jacob Collier, Flea and many more pay tribute to D'Angelo
Fans have also been celebrating his musicianship and artistry on social media
Neo-soul pioneer D’Angelo has died, aged 51
He released three of the greatest albums of the past 30 years
It took an intervention from Paul McCartney for Mick Jagger to offer Andrew Watt a job with the Rolling Stones
“This is some crazy dream as a kid with a guitar to have those names talking about you,” says Watt
Sabrina Carpenter songwriter Amy Allen on the challenges faced by women in the music industry
The Espresso and Manchild co-writer also says that she likes to “go off of emotion” rather than writing to a formula
Jacob Collier says that the problem with using AI for music making is that “it’s almost too perfect”
“It can't learn a perspective or a sense of humour or an attitude,” he argues
EJAE on the making of the KPop Demon Hunters "banger" that's taken over the world
"I wrote it on my way to the dentist,” she says
Taylor Swift explains her "stream of consciousness" songwriting sessions with Max Martin and Shellback
Toto’s Steve Porcaro on the perils of recording live to analogue tape, and what happened if you messed up
“We were debating whether we needed to do another guitar take. ‘Are you really sure we need another take? That last one was pretty good. If we punch in, we’re going to lose that one’”
