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.

← XLR MAG Archive

ConsequenceScenes

Big Thief Launch Grateful Dead-Inspired Live Archive

October 14

Big Thief have launched the Big Thief Live Archive, a free online collection of concert recordings from “the recent and distant past.” To mark the occasion, the group has also shared a…

Read at Consequence ↗

Also covered by: The Line of Best Fit, Stereogum

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

Big Thief Launch Grateful Dead-Inspired Live Archive

More from Consequence on XLR MAG

ScenesStaind Unleash “Ghosts,” First New Song in Three Years: Stream Consequence

ScenesJames Franco, Rob Lowe, and Jennifer Jason Leigh to Star in New Ben Shaprio-Written Film Consequence

ScenesKATSEYE Release WILD EP Bonus Track “Unloveu” with Music Video Consequence

ScenesJoni Mitchell Completes “Journey That Began 62 Years Ago” By Becoming US Citizen Consequence

ScenesAmy Poehler Just Conducted One of the Best Paul McCartney Interviews Maybe Ever Consequence

ScenesOlivia Rodrigo’s “The Unraveled Tour” Is a Pretty Flawless Arena Experience Consequence