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ConsequenceScenesKid Rock Reveals He Used AI on New Song with Eminem Kid Rock’s song “Heal My Faith,” featuring his bud Eminem, also contained a previously unknown collaborator. Artificial intelligence.

ConsequenceScenesWu-Tang Clan to Headline Halftime Show of Detroit Lions’ Thanksgiving Day Game Wu-Tang Clan will headline the halftime show of the Detroit Lions’ Thanksgiving Day game against the Chicago Bears.

ConsequenceScenesHarry Styles Covers “Psycho Killer” on Final Night of MSG Residency Harry Styles busted out a cover of “Psycho Killer,” wore a full-blown rat costume and broke a record all in the last night of his residency at New York City’s Madison Square Garden…

ConsequenceScenesLost Daft Punk Mix From 1997 Discovered and Released An England-based DJ has unearthed and released a lost Daft Punk mix that had been buried in an archive since 1997.

ConsequenceScenesMichael Mann Accidentally Shoots Himself at Firing Range Director Michael Mann accidentally shot himself in the leg at a Los Angeles shooting range on Saturday and was transported by ambulance to a local hospital for treatment.

ConsequenceScenesTrump Ruins David S. Pumpkins’ Return to SNL David S. Pumpkins returned to Saturday Night Live this Halloween, only to have his comeback hijacked by another very loud, very orange, and considerably less entertaining character.

ConsequenceScenesDeep Purple Postpone Shows as Singer Ian Gillan Hospitalized Due to “Medical Emergency” Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan has suffered a “medical emergency,” leading the legendary rock band to postpone its next couple shows.

ConsequenceScenesHarry Styles Says the Scariest Thing This Halloween Is New York City’s Coffee Prices Harry Styles has encountered something scarier than any Halloween costume: New York City’s coffee prices.

ConsequenceScenesTwo Arrested in Murder of SNL Writer Jimmy Fowlie’s Sister Two people have been arrested in connection with the suspected murder of Christina Downer, the sister of Saturday Night Live writer Jimmy Fowlie, nearly a year after she disappeared in Los Angeles.

ConsequenceScenesChristian Musician Kid Rock Compares Abdul El-Sayed to 9/11 Hijackers Kid Rock compared Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed to the 9/11 hijackers during an appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday night, prompting Maher to interrupt with a…

ConsequenceScenesSZA Seemingly Confirms Coachella 2027 Headlining Appearance, Work on New Album SZA has seemingly confirmed reports that she will headline Coachella 2027, while also revealing that she’s hard at work on her next album.

ConsequenceScenesJames Hetfield Says Turnstile Turned Down Touring with Metallica Metallica reached out to Turnstile about touring together, but were turned down. “We wanted to get them on tour, and they said no.

ConsequenceScenesMy Chemical Romance Confirm Plans for New Album My Chemical Romance have confirmed that they’ll spend 2027 working on a new album. Frontman Gerard Way detailed the band’s upcoming plans during their fourth of five sold-out shows at the…

ConsequenceScenesBradford Cox Releases New Atlas Sound Song “Octoberland”: Steam Bradford Cox has rebooted Atlas Sound with “Octoberland,” his solo project’s first new release in 15 years.

ConsequenceScenesTriumph Cancel Fall Leg of 50th Anniversary Tour “Due to Sudden and Unexpected Medical Circumstances” Triumph have announced the cancellation of the fall leg of their 50th Anniversary tour “due to sudden and unexpected medical circumstances affecting the band.” The US outing had been…

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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.

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