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Robe Debuts New Products and Show at PLASA

Lighting&Sound AmericaLive & DJRobe Debuts New Products and Show at PLASA Robe lighting reports having enjoyed a "brilliant" PLASA Show in London earlier this month. The company launched five new products and debuted a new expo live performance "experience." Robe also won commendati

Lighting&Sound AmericaLive & DJRobert Juliat Launches Bizet 8-Colour LED Profile at PLASA London 2026 Robert Juliat launched the new Bizet 8-Colour's LED profile fixture at PLASA Show 2026 on the stand of its exclusive distributor for the UK and Ireland, Live Technology. Bizet 8-Colour's light engin

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Lighting&Sound AmericaLive & DJJoseph Jefferson Award Winners Announced The winners of the 2026 Joseph Jefferson Awards (Equity edition), which honor achievement in Chicago's theatre of community, were given out on Monday, September 14. The design nominees are listed below w

Bandit Lites Illuminates Neyland Stadium with Tribute in Light for 25th Anniversary of 9/11

Lighting&Sound AmericaLive & DJBandit Lites Illuminates Neyland Stadium with Tribute in Light for 25th Anniversary of 9/11 Knoxville's Neyland Stadium became the setting for the 25th anniversary of September 11, 2001, as Bandit Lites provided a large-scale Tribute in Light honoring the lives lost and the enduring spirit of

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Lighting&Sound AmericaLive & DJArizona Theatre Company Workers Ratify First Union Contract with IATSE Local 415 Workers at Arizona Theatre Company (ATC) voted 15-1 to ratify their first collective bargaining agreement with IATSE Local 415, the union announced on September 9. The nearly unanimously approved contract covers 1

Jerry Harvey Audio Introduces Ten New DiamondCast Finishes for Custom In-Ear Monitors

Lighting&Sound AmericaLive & DJJerry Harvey Audio Introduces Ten New DiamondCast Finishes for Custom In-Ear Monitors Jerry Harvey Audio announces ten new DiamondCast finishes for its custom in-ear monitors (IEMs). Available as custom shells or faceplates, the new finishes combine distinctive colorways with real reclaimed diamond

Elation's Proteus Maximus at Mt. Joy Show

Lighting&Sound AmericaLive & DJElation's Proteus Maximus at Mt. Joy Show Indie band Mt. Joy is bringing its dynamic live show to audiences across the US on the Hope We Have Fun Tour: Part 2 , with a lighting design from Lightswitch. Playing a central role are Elation Proteus Maxi

Robert Fuller and Jake Roeber Take CHAUVET Professional on Pretty Lights' Tour

Lighting&Sound AmericaLive & DJRobert Fuller and Jake Roeber Take CHAUVET Professional on Pretty Lights' Tour The electronic music project and live band Pretty, which released A Trip Thru Time Fantastic , its first album in 13 years, played the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, New York. Lighting designer Robert Fuller</

Listen Technologies, Ampetronics, Show Auri at CFX 2026

Lighting&Sound AmericaLive & DJListen Technologies, Ampetronics, Show Auri at CFX 2026 Listen Technologies , the provider of wireless listening solutions, and Ampetronic, the maker of hearing loop systems, are at Church Facilities Expo (CFX) 2026, September 14-16, in the HWPco booth (501) to demonstr

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XLR is a magazine, a radar and a diary about music gear and the making of music — for the people who make records and put on shows, wherever they do it.

The name is the three-pin connector that every signal in the business passes through: the microphone on stage and in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX cable that runs the lights. Studio, stage and lighting rig share it, and so does this magazine. Every few hours XLR collects what the makers shipped, what the reviewers heard, what the studios and the touring crews are doing, which producers and collectives are surfacing and what they are saying — synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lights, the rooms and the people — from a few hundred sources in English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese and more, then plots what is moving. The editor writes a letter every few days. Nothing is sold here; when a link leads to a shop, that is the maker's shop, not ours.