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 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

Pre-order Idlewild's unrecorded album, get name in sleeve
By Tom Porter last updated
Band hit studio in 2009, test fans to the limit

Rare Beatles 'White Album' sells for $30k
By Tom Porter last updated
Vinyl with serial number 0000005 sold

How to make a DIY cardboard laptop stand
By Tom Porter last updated
Computer music just got thriftier

Richey Edwards 'presumed dead' after 13 years
By Tom Porter last updated
Manic Street Preachers become three, officially

Milk carton resonance speaker has limitless possibilities
By Tom Porter last updated
Turn any hollow space into a 2W speaker

Stream Chinese Democracy in full now
By Tom Porter last updated
Hear Guns N' Roses' album on MySpace

Official UK Chinese Democracy premiere announced
By Tom Porter last updated
GN'R tribute night hijacked for listening party
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