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dopeYEAH talkVoicesKurt Elling: The Grammy-Winning Jazz Singer Who Made Berlin Angry 🔥 Kurt Elling: Why Winning a Grammy Made Me Work Even Harder, on the dopeYEAH talk podcast! 🎙🎷 What happens when one of jazz's more inspiring artists shares his untold stories?

dopeYEAH talkVoicesMick Rogers On Playing With Manfred Mann, Frank Zappa, Adam Faith and others 🔥 Manfred Mann's Earth Band Guitarist Mick Rogers on the dopeYEAH talk Podcast! 🎸🎤What happens when an Essex kid who won his first talent contest singing Elvis grows up to play with Manfred Mann…

dopeYEAH talkVoicesAl Di Meola: Stories from a Lifetime Behind the Guitar 🔥 Al Di Meola on the dopeYEAH talk podcast! 🎸🔥 Join Rob Cass for an unforgettable episode of musician interviews on the dopeYEAH talk podcast, an unforgettable conversation with guitar legend Al Di…

dopeYEAH talkVoicesHow Tiny Mistakes Make Great Records, According to Abbey Road Master Engineer Christian Wright 🔥 Abbey Road Mastering Engineer Christian Wright on the dopeYEAH talk Podcast! 🎛️🎶 What happens when a 19-year-old runner making tea for Liam Neeson and Tom Baker grows up to master albums for Ed…

dopeYEAH talkVoicesCasey Abrams on American Idol Backstage, Jack Black and Learning from Legends 🔥 American Idol Bassist Casey Abrams on the dopeYEAH talk podcast! 🎸🎤 From Jack Black belly dancing to jazz tours across Europe, Casey Abrams has lived one of the wildest post-American Idol lives…

dopeYEAH talkVoicesRubén Blades & Luba Mason: A Powerhouse with 25 Grammy Nominations and 12 Wins 🔥 Grammy Legend Rubén Blades & Luba Mason on the dopeYEAH Podcast! 🎤🎶What does it take for a lawyer turned salsa legend to earn 25 Grammy nominations, win twelve of them, and still find time for…

dopeYEAH talkVoicesJamison Ross: What It Takes to Sing While Keeping the Beat 🔥 Grammy-Nominated Drummer & Vocalist Jamison Ross on the dopeYEAH Podcast! 🥁🎤 What happens when a voice this smooth comes from behind a drum kit?

dopeYEAH talkVoicesThe Grammy Win Nobody Expected: Nicole Zuraitis' Unlikely Story 🔥 Grammy-Winning Vocalist Nicole Zuraitis on the dopeYEAH Podcast! 🎤🏆 What does it take to go from a childhood dream of being Whitney Houston to a Grammy Award, with a detour through opera, football…

dopeYEAH talkVoicesMarco Mendoza: From Thin Lizzy to Satriani & Vai — Playing with Rock’s Giants 🔥 Bass Legend Marco Mendoza on the dopeYEAH talk Podcast! 🎸🎵What does it take to spend four decades holding down the low end for some of rock's most iconic bands — Thin Lizzy, Whitesnake, The Dead…

dopeYEAH talkVoicesJulian Lennon: Using My Voice for Something Bigger What if one of the most meaningful moments of your life came in the form of a single white feather? 🤍 In this episode, Rob Cass sits down with Julian Lennon for a deeply personal conversation about…

dopeYEAH talkVoicesMarc Ribot: Tom Waits Kept Saying No Until It Sounded Right What does it take to become the guitarist that Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Elton John, and countless legends keep calling?

dopeYEAH talkVoicesYann Tiersen: Beyond the Amélie Soundtrack What happens when the composer behind Amélie turns out to be a punk spirit who doesn’t believe in inspiration, rejects AI music, and isn’t afraid to say: “If you’re saying art is not political, then…

dopeYEAH talkVoicesRay Haller: Before Def Leppard & DIO, There Was Sweet Savage What does it take to become one of heavy metal’s most influential bands without ever becoming one of its biggest?

dopeYEAH talkVoicesAl Di Meola: Inside the Mind of a Guitar Legend What happens when a true guitar legend returns with even deeper stories you’ve never heard before? 🎸🔥 In this second conversation, Rob Cass sits down again with Al Di Meola to dive further into the…

dopeYEAH talkVoicesSimon McBride: What It’s Like Replacing Steve Morse in Deep Purple What does it take to step into one of the most legendary bands in rock history — and make it your own?

dopeYEAH talkVoicesSimon Oslender: From Piano Prodigy to Playing With Legends What does it take to have Steve Gadd and Will Lee playing your music before you even hit your peak years?

dopeYEAH talkVoicesDoug Bogie: The Missing Bass Chapter of Queen What does it feel like to stand at the very beginning of Queen’s story — and then go on to build a whole creative life far beyond it?

dopeYEAH talkVoicesBefore Women in Rock, There Was Suzi Quatro What does it take to become the woman who kicked the door open for generations of female rock musicians — and still sound this fearless today?

dopeYEAH talkVoicesThe Advice Every Young Guitarist Needs to Hear – Murray Gould What does it take to go from playing guitar on a London night bus to sharing stages with legends like Eric Clapton, Joe Bonamassa, and members of Deep Purple?

dopeYEAH talkVoicesNick Fyffe: From Leaving Jamiroquai to Playing with Deep Purple What does it feel like to leave one of the biggest funk bands in the world… and then walk on stage with Deep Purple?

dopeYEAH talkVoicesWill Lee: From a Bass “Mistake” to Playing with All Four Beatles What does it take to go from calling the bass your “biggest mistake” to playing with all four Beatles and holding down late night TV for over three decades?

dopeYEAH talkVoicesHow Jay-Z Discovered Infinity Song What happens when four siblings go from singing in Detroit to getting a life-changing call from Jay-Z?

dopeYEAH talkVoicesIs Mike Dawes Better Than Meola, Emmanuel & Van Halen Combined? What happens when one guitarist refuses to choose between emotion, technique, and imagination — and instead plays them all at once?

dopeYEAH talkVoicesGreat Music, Zero Fame (And How To Fix It): The Next Movement 🎤 What happens when you mix Swiss precision, deep funk grooves, and a little bit of illegal busking? In this electrifying episode, Rob Cass sits down with The Next Movement — one of Europe’s hottest…

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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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