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

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“I get it if he doesn't want to do Mr Tambourine Man. Maybe he's fed up with that. But I would like to hear it. And I've paid”

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“It was very basic. It was really a cocktail drum machine, you know, for people that play piano in bars”

By Ben Rogerson Published
“I’ll just never forget the way that landed on me when I first heard it, because he's playing the piano and he's just stomping his foot on the floor”

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“That's the grits, right there. So I had to turn it into grits and eggs"

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High-quality audio without any discernible delay?

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Knob tweakers, assemble! Europe's most exciting synth showcase is upon us

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Soundcore's latest pair of over-ear cans promises everything you need in a pair of day-to-day headphones at a price that's lower than you'd expect

By Ben Rogerson Published
NI had been searching for a buyer after facing insolvency proceedings

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My expert pick of music production software packages for every budget and application - tested and rated

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Next-gen pedal enables you to transform an audio signal into something that sounds completely different

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Bye bye proper piano-style mini keys – hello €299 price tag

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“I'm like going, ‘What is this girl waiting for?’ You know, like, what is the deal?”

By Rob Laing Published
Written for a '90s movie soundtrack, the song was later covered by Taylor Swift and has gone on to become a social media sensation

By Ben Rogerson Published
She appeared alongside the Fleetwood Mac star to sing a classic from 1975

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“It's something that I feel is kind of one of our very special things that happens when we're in a room together,” says Antonoff. “We kind of egg each other on”

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He suggests that it was a “weird miracle” that the two of them had such a long run together

By Ben Rogerson Published
Can you handle this?

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“The way it spits out those notes is incredible,” he says. “The attack… I just miss that on modern keyboards”

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"I haven’t listened to anybody’s records… I haven’t listened to any new music in almost 30 years," he says

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"It's sampling, but in terms of what I was doing, I was being quite low-lift with it,” she says of her early music-making efforts

By Ben Rogerson Published
"There's nothing like it. There never has or never will be.”

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Barry Blue recalls the moment Temperton got the call to go and work on the album that would become Off The Wall

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“Finneas and I thought it would be an underrated song. It was one of my favorites, but I was like, ‘This isn’t gonna be the hit"
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