Latest articles by Ben Rogerson
“She’s incredibly talented”: Hear Paul Weller covering Billie Eilish’s What Was I Made For?
“That’s such a beautiful song and the melody’s incredible - and the words. I think it’s just a great tune”
"Instantly, I knew it was the best thing I'd ever been a part of": The story of I Can't Make You Love Me
“There was an article in the newspaper about a guy,” says songwriter Mike Reid. “He lost his wife and he lost his family and he got himself in trouble and the phrase was ‘well, you can’t make a woman love you if she don’t’”
"I don't really enjoy dance music," says deadmau5, "but I love the process of making it”
“In my time of existence, so much has changed for electronic music,” he says as he looks back on his 25-year career
zplane’s Peel Stems plugin brings realtime stem separation to “almost every DAW”
A better way to break up your mixed tracks?
Kits.AI’s Kits Earn feature promises a “passive income stream” for vocalists who are willing to share their voice
Upload your voice to the Kits Verified Voice library and you can earn $.085 for every downloaded minute
Chaka Khan on hearing Stevie Wonder playing the Clav intro to Tell Me Something Good for the first time
Khan also says that she was “devastated” when she first heard the rap intro to her cover of I Feel For You
“I had too much going on”: Jazz musician Anomalie on his reworked version of Taylor Swift’s Lavender Haze
Pianote gave him just the vocal and drum track to work from
The Pharrell Williams biopic is going to be a Lego movie, and it looks like it could be pretty good
Pharrell Williams releases the trailer for his Lego biopic, Piece by Piece
Forget the Prophet-5 - here's a free plugin version of the Sequential Circuits Six-Trak
One of the first MIDI multitimbral synths comes to your DAW for free
"It’s the best song we did together”: Liz Rose on co-writing All Too Well with Taylor Swift
“It was a 20-minute long song at the time so I had to help her look at the pieces and say, ‘This needs to go here, this is important’, listen to her and grab the important lines”
"He didn't just select a stock beat and press play": Prince’s go-to synths and drum machine
From the Linn LM-1 to the Roland JD-800
Enjoy a Fred again.. vs Anderson .Paak drum-off as they give a chaotic performance of new track, Places To Be
“It’s a real privilege for me to be able to jam with Anderson and hangout,” says Fred
The FabFilter synth preset that inspired the name of Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft was used on one of its songs, and we’re pretty sure we know which one
Hear ‘Hit me soft, Hit me hard’ being played on Hit Me Hard and Soft
Revealed: The 3 Splice loops that power the beat for Sabrina Carpenter's Espresso
Too bad if loops don’t do it for ya; walked in and reproduced it for ya
Taylor Swift suffers ANOTHER piano malfunction during a “rain show” on her Eras Tour
“It’s not working. I’ll give it 15 seconds before I just use my guitar”
"Intimidating": Lenny Kravitz on jamming with Prince, Michael Jackson and being blown away by Mick Jagger
Kravitz says that he and Prince would “go see Michael in the studio and just mess with him”
“Sometimes all the track needs is one synth”: Can Behringer's Syncussion SY-1 do it all?
A Eurorack-friendly version of the 1979 analogue original
“Never thought I’d be DJing in a carriage”: Nia Archives to perform on a train to Glastonbury
Enjoy a “100mph mini-festival” in the company of the rising UK drum ‘n’ bass star
“Let me teach you how to do this - it’s not that hard”: Finneas showed Billie Eilish how to comp her own vocals
“This is the most I’ve ever written and contributed,” says Eilish. “And I did some production stuff, even”
The BBC News theme is a certified electronic banger - here's how it was created
It gets our vote every time
Apple Music reveals its full list of the Best 100 Albums of all time
Has your favourite made the cut?
Universal Audio’s Luna DAW finally lands on Windows, and it might make more sense than on the Mac
You can download the open beta version of the analogue-inspired recording software today
Benny Blanco explains why Prince is his “favourite artist of all time”
Blanco also tells the story of how he ended up in the studio with Billie Eilish when she was just 13 years old
