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Aquarium DrunkardScenesMarshall Crenshaw :: The Aquarium Drunkard Interview With his crystal clear voice and keen melodic sensibility, Marshall Crenshaw stands as one of the finest rock songwriters going.

Aquarium DrunkardScenesHabibi Funk 035 :: Beirut City Pop In a departure from the usual template of old photos of the artists, the cover of Habibi Funk’s latest reissue features an illustration by Beirut-born, Paris-based artist Raphaelle Macaron.

Aquarium DrunkardScenesLinus + Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy :: The Outsider: The Music of Jules Decorte Three oddly-shaped pieces come together in the most natural way in this under-the-radar release from Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy.

Aquarium DrunkardScenesThe Aquarium Drunkard Show: SIRIUS/XMU (7pm PST, Channel 35) Broadcasting from Copenhagen, Denmark — the Aquarium Drunkard Show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35. 7pm California time, Wednesdays. Between the visible and invisible.

Aquarium DrunkardScenesLex Walton :: Ultimate Love Forever Lex Walton makes swaggering, theatrical, large-scale rock - the spit and snarl of her vocals punk laced, the instrumental arrangements swelling to arena-rock proportions.

Aquarium DrunkardScenesTransmissions :: Adam Voith Our guest this week is author Adam Voith, whose new novel, RIYL , short for "Recommended If You Like," is an at times thinly veiled memoir of the '90s Christian punk and indie scene.

Aquarium DrunkardScenesHiroshi Yoshimura :: Quiet Forest With no deceleration in sight, the 2020s have thus far been the decade of Kankyō Ongaku pioneer Hiroshi Yoshimura.

Aquarium DrunkardScenesRonnie Self :: The Lost Sessions Best remembered for the unhinged rockabilly of “Bop-a-Lena” and Brenda Lee’s “I’m Sorry,” Ronnie Self spent much of his later career writing songs that went largely unheard.

Aquarium DrunkardScenesJosh Johnson :: Animative Josh Johnson plays the saxophone like an orchestra in this third solo album, Animative . That will surprise no one who’s seen his live shows, frenetic, ebullient displays of the power of live…

Aquarium DrunkardScenesCall Mr. Lloyd :: A Brief Richard Lloyd Appreciation A restless farewell to Richard Lloyd! The musical "alchemist"—a self-selected term—passed away on November 7.

Aquarium DrunkardScenesJon Hassell :: Music Is Invisible (Pentimento Volume Three) Music Is Invisible marks the third and final entry in Jon Hassell's Pentimento trilogy. Arriving five years after the experimental trumpeter's death, it's not exactly a studio album, but it's more…

Aquarium DrunkardScenesDexter + Franz :: Panoramic Highway While Panoramic Highway draws on a wide array of influences spanning geography and time, it's anchored by the sounds of Marin County’s coastline, where Dexter+Franz recorded at the Panoramic House.

Aquarium DrunkardScenesFelt :: Be Still (The Beach Boys) Toward the tail end of their ten-album run in the eighties, English jangle pop outfit Felt had sights on 1968's understated Beach Boys classic Friends for the band's only known cover.

Aquarium DrunkardScenesThe Lagniappe Sessions :: Leah Senior Australian singer-songwriter Leah Senior turns to two selections from the British folk guitar tradition for this installment of the Lagniappe Sessions.

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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.

More than three hundred sources, in sixteen languages: 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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