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Electric guitars & amps · 96 stories, +28 vs last week

Electric guitars & amps: 96 stories in seven days, +28 on the week before.

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EuropeGibson 1957 L-5 CES Reissue, Hollowbody-Archtop-Gitarre AMAZONA.de

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Rolling Stone IndiaAsiaThe 2027 Grammys’ Best Pop Solo Performance Nominees Should Ring in New Artists Leading up to the Grammy nominations on Nov. 16, “Rolling Stone” is breaking down 11 different categories.

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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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