Tom Porter
Tom Porter worked on MusicRadar from its mid-2007 launch date to 2011, covering a range of music and music making topics, across features, gear news, reviews, interviews and more. A regular NAMM-goer back in the day, Tom now resides permanently in Los Angeles, where he's doing rather well at the Internet Movie Database (IMDB).
Latest articles by Tom Porter

Fancy jamming with our guitar magazines?
By Tom Porter last updated
Free expert guitar tutorials to celebrate Magazine Week

BLOG: "Don't cha wish your website was hot like this?"
By Tom Porter last updated
Paid-for lyrics and product placement in music

REM's Peter Buck's stolen guitar gets 'anonymous' return
By Tom Porter last updated
Prized Rickenbacker back in safe hands, but who nicked it?

BLOG: Will slotMusic's microSD card destroy the CD?
By Tom Porter last updated
In a digital age, do we need a new physical format?

Kanye West posts new song, gets bad feedback, re-records it
By Tom Porter last updated
Love Lockdown wasn't a hit with fans, Metallica take note

Mudvayne team up with Ticketmaster, we're unimpressed
By Tom Porter last updated
The Album Is The Ticket doesn't do what it says on the tin

The Cure's Robert Smith 'despairs' at iTunes
By Tom Porter last updated
Smith on Hypnagogic States EP: "5 tracks for £7.99? For fucks sake!"

Ben Folds to record with novelist Nick Hornby
By Tom Porter last updated
Folds: "He writes all the lyrics and I write the music"

YOUR QUESTIONS: For Yngwie Malmsteen
By Tom Porter last updated
Ask the neo-classical metal-genius anything you like

Slapstik drumstick has flexible tip, drums really fast
By Tom Porter last updated
Is it a 'drumming revolution' or a big cheat?

Metallica: Death Magnetic is in shops now
By Tom Porter, Chris Vinnicombe last updated
We've bought a copy already

Bon Jovi's music rights for sale
By Tom Porter last updated
Bid with SongVest for a piece of Aerosmith, The Monkees and Ozzy

Razorlight record third album Slipway Fires "onto tape"
By Tom Porter last updated
Hear the first 'stripped down' single Wire To Wire

Oasis want to teach you how to play guitar
By Tom Porter last updated
Band giveaway Dig Out Your Soul songbook and sheet music

Guitar Hero World Tour gets Sting and Tool
By Tom Porter last updated
Yet more artists get animated for video game

MusicRadar pick of the week
By Tom Porter last updated
From new iPods and Oasis exclusives to ridiculous guitar stunts and tapping masterclasses

Did Dido play every instrument on new album?
By Tom Porter last updated
Producer Jon Brion and Dido talk Safe Trip Home

Diego Stocco records a stapler, creates entire track
By Tom Porter last updated
Inanimate object music via sound mangling

10 most played Christmas songs since 2003
By Tom Porter last updated
'Played' or 'murdered'? The PRS' list…

Metallica out of contract, consider internet release
By Tom Porter last updated
Web embraced for next album. Really?

The Prodigy preview Invaders Must Die
By Tom Porter last updated
Limited free download and tracklisting announced

Andy Burrows on meeting Ginger Baker: "I was petrified"
By Tom Porter, Rhythm last updated
Razorlight drummer reveals all about interview

Pavement offer a date with themselves... in Ikea
By Tom Porter last updated
Win a 'Date With Ikea' in Ikea with Pavement
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