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Electric guitars & amps · 108 stories, +56 vs last week

Electric guitars & amps: 108 stories in seven days, +56 on the week before.

GuitarsBuddy Guy's 90th birthday concert livestream is set to be a barnstormer with guitar legends Clapton, Mayer, Bonamassa, Gibbons, and more hitting the stage to celebrate: Here's how to watch tonight's Buddy's Got The Blues gig from anywhere Guitar Player

GuitarsWishbone Ash’s Andy Powell on his undying love for the Flying V and how his guitar journey began with a packet of Rice Krispies Guitar World

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Lighting&Sound InternationalLive & DJFidato to distribute APG Audio and Active Audio across India [India] Arbane Groupe has appointed Fidato as the exclusive distributor for both APG Audio and Active Audio across India

Lighting&Sound InternationalLive & DJTexas A&M University powers events with LEA Professional [USA] Texas A&M University hosts thousands of events. Managing audio for such a wide range of events requires equipment that can easily adapt

Lighting&Sound InternationalLive & DJGreen Hippo Estuary Series MC1 and MC2 controllers shipping now [USA] Green Hippo, an ACT Entertainment brand, is now shipping the Estuary Series

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

TPi MagazineLive & DJ64 Audio restructures senior management team 64 Audio has announced several organisational updates. Vitaliy Belonozhko is stepping away from his role as CEO and will remain active with the company.

UK Jazz NewsEuropeDave Holland – ‘Freedom Call’ NOTE: This review is being published on 1 October 2026, Dave Holland’s 80th birthday, and it is an opportunity for all of us at UKJN to thank Dave for decades of fabulous concerts and albums, and to…

TPi MagazineLive & DJGreen Hippo Estuary Series MC1 and MC2 media controllers are now shipping Eleven minutes between headliners. The sponsor loop needs to be on screen now, and the only operator on hand is the one running lights. With the Green Hippo Estuary Media Controller, that’s enough.

mondo*drLive & DJNew Yamaha RIVAGE PM firmware brings enhanced connectivity and control Yamaha Corporation has announced Firmware V7.20 for its RIVAGE PM digital mixing systems, a major update which introduces support for the new DM5 series digital mixing consoles, RUio utility I/O…

RekkerdDAW & pluginsMastering The Mix launches Carbon Q connected equalizer plugin Mastering The Mix has announced the release of an equalizer plugin that spreads across your whole session to help you get a professional mix for your songs.

Guitar PlayerGuitarsBuddy Guy's 90th birthday concert livestream is set to be a barnstormer with guitar legends Clapton, Mayer, Bonamassa, Gibbons, and more hitting the stage to celebrate: Here's how to watch tonight's Buddy's Got The Blues gig from anywhere At a glance (Image credit: Blackbird Presents, Live Nation and Buddy Guy) When: From Thursday, October 1st 2026 Start time: 7:30 PM ET/ 4:30 PM PT/ 12:30 AM UK Where: Stream via Nugs.net Hitting 90…

PollstarIndustryUK Lineups: Jelly Roll At C2C UK, Madness At Rock N Roll Circus London Debut, Simply Red At Somerset Sounds Premiere & More C2C returns to the UK next year, with The O2 continuing to host the festival in London. OVO Hydro is hosting in Glasgow, while AO Arena will be home to the inaugural Manchester edition of C2C.

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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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