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Electric guitars & amps · 104 stories, +33 vs last week

Electric guitars & amps: 104 stories in seven days, +33 on the week before.

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Guitar WorldGuitarsGuitar World’s tracks of the month – our editors pick their guitar highlights Hello there, and welcome to Guitar World Editors’ Picks – our monthly guide to the guitar tracks that have captured our editors’ attention over the past four weeks or so.

PollstarIndustryA New Era For Professional Sports And Entertainment In Seattle, A Fireside Chat With Samantha Holloway Samantha Holloway, majority owner and managing partner of One Roof Sports and Entertainment, and Chris Granger, CEO of Oak View Group, discuss Seattle’s new era of professional sports and live…

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

MatrixSynthSynthsZoom MRT-3 Micro RhythmTrak Drum Machine via this listing Additional Perfect Circuit listings You can find demos on the MRT-3 in previous posts here.

PollstarIndustryThinking Outside The Box (But Together) At VenuesNow Conference Moderator Andy Genlser (Pollstar editor in chief), UTA’s Eddie Clemens, Climate Pledge Arena’s Janice Jimenez, and Hive.co CEO Ian Roberts.

MatrixSynthSynthsSonicware LIVEN Bass&Beats Wavetable Synthesizer + Rhythm Machine via this listing Additional Perfect Circuit listings

MatrixSynthSynthsSOMA Laboratory Lyra-8 Organismic Drone Synthesizer (Rust) via this listing Additional Perfect Circuit listings

Premier GuitarGuitarsRig Rundown: Mr. Phylzzz Chris Kies met up with Clinton Jacob of Mr. Phylzzz at the Cobra in East Nashville, where the two-piece was touring behind Fear the Lord .

Digital Music NewsIndustryVoice Intelligence Startup Modulate Raises $25 Million, Says Its AI Music Detector ‘Achieved 95% Precision Across 76 Unique Genres’ Photo Credit: Modulate AI-powered startup Modulate, the company behind “audio-native voice intelligence model” Velma, has scored a $25 million raise.

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· Trade shows and launch events, this week's stories from each corner of the industry, and what its press is covering.

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About

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.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.