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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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Eminem’s Debut Release ‘Infinite’ Now Streaming for 30th Anniversary

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Eminem ‘s independently released debut album, Infinite , bombed when it came out 30 years ago today. “It sold maybe 70 copies and didn’t get great feedback,” he wrote in his 2008 memoir, The Way I Am…

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