Latest articles by Ben Rogerson
"Man, this sounds like it's going to be big": Shakira and Wyclef Jean celebrate 20 years of Hips Don’t Lie
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
"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
"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 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
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
“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
“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?
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
“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
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?
As Around The World In A Day turns 40, it's time for a reappraisal
Lady Gaga apologises to fans as she falls victim to a mic malfunction at Coachella
She overcame the technical problem to deliver another stunning performance
“They didn’t like his bikini underwear”: Prince’s support sets for the The Rolling Stones remembered
“Prince got freaked and cut the set short. The rock stations reported that we got booed off the stage, but that wasn’t true,” he says
Elton John and Brandi Carlile are reviving the lost art of the long song intro
“No one starts an album like that anymore!” says Carlile
“The verse tricks you": Charli XCX’s Brat collaborator Jon Shave on creating Sympathy Is A Knife
"With Brat, Charli had put so much thought into it before we even got in the studio," he says
Songwriter Eg White on how Adele took some “very boring chords” and turned them into an “explosive” hit
Why working with the star on 2008’s Chasing Pavements led White to question some of his own creative instincts
Billie Eilish reveals what she had to do to become “looser and jazzier” with her vocal delivery
“My voice has gotten so much better and stronger and like I just can play in a way that I never have been able to before,” she confirms
