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
Ben Folds recorded live, sold on iTunes next day
By Tom Porter last updated
"The Sounds Of Last Night… This Morning"
Listening to Queen can help you run faster
By Tom Porter last updated
Don't Stop Me Now, we presume
Wal-Mart's AC/DC Black Ice exclusive not so exclusive
By Tom Porter last updated
Indies fight back: "Don't piss off our customers"
Kurt Cobain to be 'smoked in joint', finally achieve Nirvana?
By Tom Porter last updated
Artist "acquires" stolen ashes, wants to set Kurt free
QOTSA head to desert for new album
By Tom Porter last updated
Band also remastering 1998 debut LP
Caribou takes home Polaris Music Prize 2008
By Tom Porter last updated
Andorra LP wins, Holy Fuck didn't
YOUR QUESTIONS: For Joe Bonamassa
By Tom Porter last updated
Ask the blues-master anything you like
Paul McCartney's dance project The Fireman return
By Tom Porter last updated
Electronic Arguments: less ambient, more rock
Electronic drumkit t-shirt for chest beaters
By Tom Porter last updated
With seven different sounds, inbuilt speaker
Bob Dylan streams new album Tell Tale Signs
By Tom Porter last updated
Hear it all before release, get free download
Noel Gallagher on The Shock Of The Lightning: "It's Krautrock"
By Tom Porter last updated
And don't expect any Oasis hit singles from Dig Out Your Soul
Internal Combustion Guitar vibrates your hands, soul
By Tom Porter last updated
Like playing in a fast car on a bumpy road
Limp Bizkit reform with Evanescence guitarist?
By Tom Porter last updated
Is Fred Durst Rollin' out a Mission Impossible?
Public Enemy top 100 greatest hip-hop songs
By Tom Porter last updated
Fight The Power wins, MC Hammer at 26
My Bloody Valentine to finally finish aborted third LP
By Tom Porter last updated
Kevin Shields: "All that stuff was better than I thought"
The Police top 10 richest music stars of 2008
By Tom Porter last updated
What's a credit crunch? Van Halen still raking it in, too…
The musical road: long and whining
By Tom Porter last updated
Honda puts grooves in street, plays William Tell Overture
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
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