Sixth Tone

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Sixth ToneChinaIn Photos: China Begins Its Weeklong National Day Holiday Domestic and international flight bookings rose as some travelers combined the Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day breaks.

October 1

Sixth ToneChinaBeijing Court Lets Widow Use Embryos Created With Late Husband A hospital refused to continue the embryo-transfer process after her husband’s death, citing consent requirements, potential inheritance disputes, and restrictions on assisted reproduction.

September 25

Sixth ToneChinaMarriage Proposal at Beijing Concert Hits Sour Note With Fans The couple’s romantic gesture drew angry shouts and security intervention. A viral video of the incident later prompted a reported police complaint.

September 17

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.