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Music AllyIndustryBigXthaPlug reveals album features with localised billboards BigXthaPlug releases his fourth studio album Better Over Time on 30 October, and the rollout has included one of the more inventive feature reveals we’ve seen this year.

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Music AllyIndustryAudio Chateau Records raises $9m for ‘creator culture’ label High-single-digit funding rounds for music-tech startups are familiar, but less so for labels. Audio Chateau Records is bucking that trend by trousering a Series A round of up to $9m.

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Music AllyIndustryUMG talks AI music: ‘The volume is growing faster than the safeguards’ Universal Music Group’s quarterly financial earnings-call yesterday saw boss Sir Lucian Grainge sounding the latest alarm around AI music.

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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.

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.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.