"We are each other’s Rick Rubin": Justice on keeping production in house for new album Hyperdrama Xavier de Rosnay and Gaspard Augé lift the lid on their creative process in a new interview with Apple Music's Zane Lowe ..read more

“Where are the famous songs?”: Neil Tennant questions whether Taylor Swift has released 'her Billie Jean' Shake It Off is “all sung one or two notes going up and down,” he says ..read more

"Plugins get tricky because you start to hear with your eyes. Some of them have flashy interfaces - they make you think they’re doing more than they’re actually doing": St. Vincent on self-producing All Born Screaming As Annie Clark releases her seventh album, Kate Puttick learns why the studio is both her heaven and her hell, and why there’s still a place for drum machines even when you’ve got Dave Grohl to hand ..read more

Behringer has officially released Vintage, its free VST synth plugin (yes, really this time) The company says it’s worth $99, but you can have it for nothing ..read more

The incredible story of Eddie Van Halen’s Beat It solo He created a legend but didn’t earn a dime. He destroyed the master tape (and a speaker). And they had to remake the track… backwards. No wonder Van Halen wasn’t their first choice ..read more

Free music samples: download loops, hits and multis from SampleRadar 92,698 free music sample downloads ..read more

St Vincent has her say on the song she wrote with Taylor Swift becoming a fan-powered hit “It’s like the fans just decided: ‘No, this is your hit song ..read more

“That was so wrongheaded”: Porter Robinson says that he regrets dismissing EDM as “not really art” “It was turning into this arena-sized highly commercial thing, which wasn’t what I wanted to do, and the whole EDM festival thing felt super whack to me,” he says now ..read more

Grimes: "Sound design is my favourite part of the recording process" Following the Canadian artist's disastrous Coachella performance, we revisit a classic interview surrounding the release of Grimes' fourth album Art Angels ..read more

Issue 334 of Computer Music is on sale now Transform your voice with Computer Music's June issue – and get a FREE FM synth plugin worth £44 ..read more