XLR

Latest

On the calendar

· Trade shows and launch events, this week's stories from each corner of the industry, and what its press is covering.

On view

This week, from that corner the newest stories from the corner of the industry you picked

The wire their own posts, translated

How records get made in 2026 from the industry's own reports

Sources

Fetched every three hours, linked to the original

About

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.

← XLR Archive

Rolling Stone IndiaAsia

Carjacked Trailers and Missing Drummers: How Guns N’ Roses Became Music Video Superstars

September 16

Nigel Dick was a “record company guy who thought he could direct” when he boarded his plane from London to Los Angeles in 1985. But, as he writes in his new memoir, Music Video Mischief , out today (Sept. 15), from the m

Drums & percussion

Read at Rolling Stone India ↗

One letter a week, in your inbox.

Latest

Carjacked Trailers and Missing Drummers: How Guns N’ Roses Became Music Video Superstars

Related

GearSabian launches Solar cymbal packs perfect for new players Mixdown

SynthsRudeBox - Drum Synthesizer MatrixSynth

SynthsBOSS DR-880 Dr. Rhythm Drum Machine SN BY80364 MatrixSynth

MakersBest Plug-In Chains for Vocals, Guitar, and Drums Universal Audio Blog

DrumsModern Drummer Announces Celeste Fox as the 2026 Winner of the Neil Peart Spirit of Drumming Scholarship Modern Drummer

IndustryRC MIX releases automated SNARE plugins for retail market MMR