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Digital Music NewsIndustryJonas Brothers Take Over Roblox’s Steal an Egg for a Halloween Concert Photo Credit: Roblox The Jonas Brothers gear up to take over Roblox’s Steal an Egg for a one-time-only in-game Halloween concert.

PollstarIndustryWelcome To Rockville Announces Lineup, Upgrades For May 6-9 Daytona Speedway The 16th year of Welcome To Rockville, billed as Florida’s largest rock, metal and punk festival, will include more than 150 artists, topped by Korn, Bad Omens, Pierce The Veil, Blink-182 May 6-9 at…

FOH OnlineLive & DJYamaha Brings Hands-on Console Workshops to the AES Show Nashville NASHVILLE – Yamaha will present six workshops at the AES Show, giving attendees opportunities to get hands-on with its new DM5 Series digital mixing consoles and explore practical approaches to live…

Music ConnectionIndustryAssignments: Sonny Takhar Chairman and CEO Warner Music UK & Ireland Warner Music Group (WMG) has announced the appointment of industry executive Sonny Takhar as Chairman and CEO of Warner Music UK & Ireland.

Premier GuitarGuitarsDinosaur Jr.: Back to the Noise J Mascis has so many guitars that at least one of them has no obvious job. “It’s not good for songwriting, playing live, or recording. It’s not good for any of the real things we do.

FOH OnlineLive & DJNeumann Adds KK 15 Capsule and MCM 115 Instrument Sets to MCM Clip Mic System Neumann has expanded its MCM clip mic system with their KK 15 supercardioid capsule and MCM 115 instrument sets, which promise to deliver high quality sound with increased feedback rejection.

Mix OnlineGearPlacid Audio Carbonphone RU-80 – A Mix Mini Review The Basics: A carbon-granule-capsule microphone that delivers delicious distortion, $350 direct from Placid Audio .

FOH OnlineLive & DJFirehouse Provides JBL VTX for Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show CULVER CITY, CA – For the 2026 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, which took place Oct. 18 at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, CA, Firehouse Productions provided JBL VTX enclosures including 120…

Mix OnlineGearCapturing World War II Weather Drama Pressure Production sound mixer Nadine Richardson used a variety of technology to capture dialogue, atmospheric environments and explosive action sequences for historical drama Pressure.

Premier GuitarGuitarsMXR Flanger/Doubler Review Some pieces of gear become legendary because everyone used them. Others become legendary because one person used them, relentlessly, until the sound became inseparable from the player.

Mix OnlineGearDouglas Romanow Updates to 7.1.4 Canadian producer and mix engineer Douglas Romanow has upgraded his latest Toronto studio with a new 7.1.4 system for stereo and Dolby Atmos mixing.

Guitar PlayerGuitarsThe British ace who had more than a touch of the Chicago blues, according to Billy Gibbons The British blues boom of the 1960s owed everything to Black American musicians, but bands like the Yardbirds and the Rolling Stones helped bring the music to a wider audience in the U.K.

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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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