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.

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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.

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“Classic Blondie” return with new album ‘High Noon’ featuring Johnny Marr, Glen Matlock and more and energetic single ‘Spectral Eyes’

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Blondie are back with the new album ‘High Noon’, which features the final recordings from Clem Burke and contributions from Johnny Marr , Glen Matlock and more.

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