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Electric guitars & amps · 105 stories, +37 vs last week

Electric guitars & amps: 105 stories in seven days, +37 on the week before.

GuitarsHow Eric Clapton felt when he auctioned off his legendary Stratocaster – and why it was ultimately worth it Guitar World

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Magnetic MagazineLive & DJInterview: How 7 Music Supervisors are quietly shaping the course of the music industry in 2026… We spoke to 10 Music Supervisors – to better understand the impact of Sync on the industry in 2026 As a musician or a person, working with musicians – very little, is a sure thing.

Rolling Stone IndiaAsiaSpotify RAP91 Live Returns With Divine, Arivu, and a Big Regional Rap Push Spotify RAP91 Live is set to return to Mumbai on Oct. 24, 2026, with a lineup that makes an even bigger case for the breadth of India’s regional hip-hop scene.

DJ MagLive & DJSix emerging artists you need to hear: September 2026 The latest and greatest DJs, producers and MCs rising to the top this month. From acid-tinted techno and trance to spellbinding ambient dub, feel-good house and incisive UK rap, here’s September…

DJ MagLive & DJNative Instruments announces Maschine 3.7 with new creative sequencing tools The music tech giant is also marking its 30th birthday by launching three more of its Expansions sound packs

mondo*drLive & DJTiMax brings acoustic transparency and spatial precision to Glyndebourne Glyndebourne, the celebrated East Sussex opera house, has integrated TiMax SoundHub spatial processing into its audio infrastructure in a landmark upgrade.

MusicTechGearArturia releases Pigments Play, a slimmed-down free version of its mainstay soft synth Arturia is taking one of its most beloved products and releasing it for free! Well, almost. Pigments Play is a free, condensed version of the flagship Pigments soft synth.

Guitar WorldGuitarsHow Eric Clapton felt when he auctioned off his legendary Stratocaster – and why it was ultimately worth it Eric Clapton says selling two of his prized electric guitars at auction in 2004 was a “big, big mistake” but accepts the wider context justified the painful split.

MusicTechGearTechnics continues its commitment to premium sound fidelity with new flagship EAH-A1000 wireless headphones Technics has become a staple for DJ performance, but the Japanese audio brand is also committed to the listening experience. Enter the company’s new flagship wireless over-ear headphones: EAH-A1000.

IQIndustryFestival news: Roskilde reveals first wave of 2027 acts Leading the latest round of festival news, Denmark’s Roskilde Festival has announced its first wave of acts for 2027, led by Tame Impala and the Patti Smith Quartet.

RekkerdDAW & pluginsGiveaway Contest: MM Soundworks Drumsampler plugin (3x) MM Soundworks has just released a new 16-pad sampling instrument for Windows and macOS. Every pad in Drumsampler is a complete voice, and each one can be put through the playback engine of one of…

Guitar Pedal XGuitars2026 September Pedal-Chain Update - Episode IX - Big Time Expansion A very unusual month for me. My work situation changed very significantly as relates to my now mostly former other day job.

UK Jazz NewsEuropeGary Crosby and Denys Baptiste present Sonny Rollins Music, perhaps more than any other art form, has the ability to transport its audience across space and time.

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Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

Around a hundred and sixty sources, in English, Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Chinese and Italian: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

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