Latest articles by Ben Rogerson
Luke Combs on being told by Tracy Chapman that he’d made a mistake in his cover of Fast Car
“I think about it every single time that I sing the song, and I will think about it every single time I sing this song for the rest of my whole life”
“That’s different, let’s go”: Killah K on the making of Beyoncé’s Texas Hold ‘Em
“It’s incredible how Beyoncé was able to hear herself in the original demo; it was completely left-field from what we’d usually hear from her and that’s just how genius she is”
“Like a childhood dream come true”: Steve Lukather on Quincy Jones’ ability to create “magic” in the studio
"Everyone played their best around Quincy. He commanded the room. Everyone was their extra best for every take”
The long and winding history of Rhodes: New Anthology plugin leads classic electric pianos to your DAW
Both classic and rare models are included
Archive BBC footage reveals the wonders of MIDI music making in 1990
The show was called Techno, but the music definitely isn’t
Greg Phillinganes on the Michael Jackson song arrangement that Quincy Jones rejected
Phillinganes reveals that he last saw Jones earlier this year, when they “talked and reminisced”
Kanye West and Jay-Z producer Anthony Kilhoffer on the budget bitcrusher he used on In Paris
Released in 2016, it emulates the crunchy sound of vintage samplers
Nintendo Music puts the company’s classic video game soundtracks in an iOS and Android app
From title screens to boss battles and everything in between
Coldplay forced to play a show without one of their members for the first time in their history
Guy Berryman was taken ill in Melbourne
Elvis Costello says that the gig he saw Justice play was “one of the great shows I've ever been to”
He’s also been doubling down on his decision not to get into a songwriting spat with Olivia Rodrigo
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Bonnie Raitt on Bon Iver and Charli XCX’s unlikely request to sample her song, Nick Of Time
Raitt also reveals how Taylor Swift reacted after she beat her to Song Of The Year at The Grammys
Roland’s new Earth Piano instrument puts “50 years of piano development” into your DAW
Grand, upright and felt pianos are all here
Questlove on the Prince production that he calls “one of the most daring funk songs of all time"
How Tower Of Power’s Squib Juice fuels the groove that drives The Time’s 777-9311
“We recorded that song in a toilet with quite a cheap microphone, a Shure SM58”: Phil Oakey lifts the lid on the birth of The Human League’s Don’t You Want Me
In 1981, the band were enjoying their first flush of commercial success
From iPad Pro to the iMac: Apple's new all-in-one desktop takes its M4 chip from the company's flagship tablet
Launch comes on the same day as the release of Apple Intelligence
BT on the new Spanish version of Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree that was made possible by his AI plugin
Will Noche Buena y Navidad become a festive classic?
Taylor Swift is joined on stage by Sabrina Carpenter for a surprise shot of Eras Tour Espresso
Acoustic mash-up also featured Carpenter’s Please Please Please and Swift’s Is It Over Now?
Why the new Springsteen biopic could spark a new wave of interest in the 4-track Portastudio
New movie will tell the story of the making of The Boss’s 1982 album, Nebraska
“I think she likes loud guitars - in this day and age!": The Breeders’ Kim Deal on Olivia Rodrigo
As the tour draws to a close, The Breeders' Kim Deal says of Rodrigo: “I think she likes loud guitars - in this day and age! She finds loud guitars exciting and wants to be around them”
Kylie Minogue on the Britney Spears hit that she turned down
“It's like the fish that got away. You just have to accept it," she previously admitted
Jon Hopkins reflects on being introduced to Coldplay by Brian Eno and his work on Moon Music
Hopkins recently hit number 1 in the US and UK simultaneously thanks to his appearances on Coldplay’s Moon Music and Charli XCX’s Brat reworks album
Kurzweil and Axel Hartmann channel mid-century modern design with the KaP1 digital piano
Use it in the home, on stage or at the studio
