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

GaffaEurope

Det var svært at kigge på, da Mike Skinner skældte sin korsanger ud

11.11

Birmingham-gruppen The Streets opførte sit over 20 år gamle album som et teaterstykke i Store Vega. Illusionen holdt ubehageligt godt.

Read at Gaffa ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

Det var svært at kigge på, da Mike Skinner skældte sin korsanger ud

More from Gaffa on XLR MAG

EuropeRobbie Williams vil ikke sagsøge Olivia Rodrigo: "Noget fucking sund fornuft må vinde" Gaffa

EuropeSaveus om årene efter X-Factor i ny podcast: "Jeg har altid følt min snak om den tid blev misfortolket" Gaffa

EuropeEmma Sehested Høeg vender tilbage: Annoncerer ny koncert i Royal Arena Gaffa

EuropeMan skulle tro, at det handlede om sex. Men hun synger faktisk om kærlighed Gaffa

EuropeHun er en af Nordens største sangskrivere siden Björk Gaffa

EuropeGAFFA søger Marketing Manager – med ambitioner for både brand, kreativitet og vækst Gaffa