Press
XLR is an independent magazine about music gear and the making of music, worldwide. Every few hours it collects what instrument and software makers shipped, what reviewers heard, what studios, producers and new collectives are saying, from a few hundred sources in many languages, and plots what is moving.
Facts
- Published in English; sources read in English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese and more.
- Independent: no publisher, no advertiser, no affiliate links; a shop link is the maker's shop.
- Every story links to its source; XLR quotes headlines and short excerpts only.
- The editor writes a letter every few days under a pen name from the day's material, read before it goes out.
- Sources: a few hundred gear, production and industry publications, maker blogs and channels across the world.
Editor
Jonah Reyes. Jonah Reyes was born in Daly City to Filipino parents, learned to solder before he learned to drive, and spent twelve years in Los Angeles rooms: a runner in Burbank, then an assistant, then mixing records nobody has heard of and a few everyone has. He now mixes from a small room in Echo Park and from whichever studio the work is in that month — Berlin, London, Tokyo, São Paulo — with one pair of monitors he trusts and a wall of pedals he does not need. He plays bass badly and on purpose. He will not write about a piece of gear he has not put a signal through.
Editors' letters are published under the editor's pen name and are written from the day's material.
Quoting us
Quote freely with a link to the page. Screenshots of the radar and the signal pages are fine with attribution.
